Boosting the fintech ecosystem, from Miami, the United States, Visa and Finnovista announced on August 30 to Cointelegraph in Spanish, what are the 12 finalist startups of the Visa Everywhere Initiative competition in its third edition for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Visa Everywhere Initiative is a global innovation…
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Visa Inc. today announced a strategic partnership agreement with Rappi, the leading on-demand delivery platform in Latin America, to help accelerate digital commerce and financial inclusion throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Under the multi-year agreement, the companies will work together to drive digital payment solutions and next-generation financial services…
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If there was any doubt about Apple’s future direction, they have been eliminated since Monday’s event: the focus was only on services: there were no hardware renewals. In addition to a bored news app, Apple introduced a gaming flat rate and a new video streaming service. And of course: the…
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The confirmation that the fintech segment is not a passing fad, but an industry with unlimited expansion potential, came Monday from the hand of Apple, which caused a real earthquake with the launch of its Apple Card. A surprise in the fintech world It was not a movement in the…
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In Mexico, traditional banking has had difficulties in offering high-level service, especially in the digital age. In fact, only 35% of Mexicans who have a bank account have stated that their bank offers good products and services. In this way fintech have a great potential to improve this problem, and…
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Visa and the French bank Natixis have reached an agreement to create an alliance with which to provide services related to payments to European startups. The objective is to offer services focused on both the issuance of cards and the adoption of the necessary regulations and procedures. At the moment…
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VISA is recruiting project managers to work on its cryptography team. A recent job publication indicates that the company is seeking a position as a full-time technical product manager familiar with blockchain for the company’s location in Palo Alto, VISA Fintech. VISA Looking for Blockchain Candidates According to the job…
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Bitcoin could outperform payment networks like Visa, Mastercard or PayPal in the next 10 years. This concluded the software startup DataLight on 2 April. In a study, the company compared growth in Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal with growth at Bitcoin. If the cryptocurrency continues to develop so rapidly, it will…
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The main executives of Mastercard and Wells Fargo agreed that the blockchain technology has a long-term potential. But to date it has not been done. Tim Sloan, Managing Director of Wells Fargo, and Ajaypal Banga, Executive Director of MasterCard, agreed that the potential of distributed record technology (DLT) has not…
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The payment provider Klarna has launched an open banking platform through which other fintechs, banks and companies can trigger payments on the accounts of consumers. According to the company, the platform provides access to 99 percent of online banking customers in currently 14 European countries. More than 4,300 European banks…
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