Tagged: caribbean

Digital Banking: Segura Bank Selects Temenos to Support Virtual Bank Platform in the Cloud for Latin Americans

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) recently announced that Puerto-Rico headquartered Segura Bank has selected Temenos “to power the launch of a new digital bank in the cloud for mid to high earners in Latin America.” Segura Bank will run Temenos’ banking platform “on Microsoft Azure to develop… Read More

Fintech in Latin America and the Caribbean: IDB Report Provides Detailed Insight into Rapid Fintech Growth

Latin America and the Caribbean has emerged as a red hot region for Fintech development. A portion of the world long dominated by incumbent banks and other established service providers, Fintech has emerged as a fast track path to provide traditional and highly sophisticated services… Read More

Global Payments Firm BPC Expands into Americas, Caribbean to Support Card and Payment Processing Services

BPC has announced its expansion into the Americas in order to support the payments and processing requirements of traditional financial institutions, payments processors, and Fintech firms. The company is launching its full suite of SaaS Cloud services “on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) from Ashburn, Virginia,… Read More

Neobanking Platform Migom to Offer Virtual Banking and Support for Crypto-Assets

In the Caribbean, a new neobanking platform has been introduced. It aims to offer all the features provided by digital banking platforms along with support for crypto-assets. As mentioned in an announcement, neobank Migom offers banking services to SMEs operating in emerging markets. Migom Bank‘s… Read More

Communications Platform as a Service Kaleyra Announces New Agreement With Visa in Latin America & Caribbean

Kaleyra, Inc. (NYSE:KLR), a Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS), announced on Monday it has formed a new agreement with Visa in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Kaleyra reported that as part of the agreement its innovation lab, k-lab, will be creating communication… Read More

Visa to Acquire Miami based YellowPepper, a Payments Technology Firm, in order Expand Global Operations

Visa (NYSE:V) is reportedly planning to acquire YellowPepper, a payments tech company, in order to extend its global operations into the Caribbean and other jurisdictions. Established in 2014 and fully operational in nine different Latin American (LatAm) nations, the Miami-headquartered firm serves around 50 clients… Read More

Caribbean Examinations Council Piloting Blockchain System for Securing Academic Records

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), a provider of secondary and post-secondary training and education that also manages end of program testing, began piloting a program yesterday that will host the academic records of 24 000 participants on a blockchain system. The CXC hopes the system… Read More

Visa Teams Up With Florida Fintech NovoPayment to Facilitate B2B Transactions in Latin America & The Caribbean 

Visa (NYSE: V) announced on Wednesday it has formed a partnership with NovoPayment, a Florida-based fintech company, to facilitate the implementation of payment solutions for Business to Business (B2B) transactions in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the credit card giant, the companies will work… Read More

Caribbean Property on the Market for 600 Bitcoin

This is one way to piggy-back on the rising popularity of Bitcoin.  A 13 acre property in the Caribbean is being offered for sale at a price of just 600 Bitcoin. The promotional savvy is helping to raise the profile of Union Island in St Vincent… Read More

MOBI724 Enters Agreement With Visa; Offers Platform in Latin America & Caribbean

Canadian fintech firm MOBI724 Global Solutions Inc. announced this week it has entered into an agreement with Visa, a global payments technology company, to provide Visa clients a suite of integrated Loyalty Solutions, including MOBI724’s Card-Linked Offers & Rewards, Digital Marketing and Business Intelligence Solutions… Read More

Gabriela Andrade & Diego Herrera of the IDB Explain the Importance of Alternative Finance to the Americas

The Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge Judge Business School and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation team at Chicago Booth School of Business have joined forces to initiate the  2015 Americas Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey.  This landmark survey is the first comprehensive and empirical assessment of crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending (marketplace lending)… Read More

Women’s Jamaican Soccer Team Launch Crowdfunding Campaign For 2015 World Cup

With training for the 2015 Women’s World Cup Soccer Tournament already underway, the ladies of the Jamacian Soccer Team have launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $50,000 to get them to Canada for the qualifying rounds. According to USA Today, no Caribbean team… Read More

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