Global Topics, FinTech, LATAM, Access to Credit, SMEs Brendan le Grange Global Topics, FinTech, LATAM, Access to Credit, SMEs Brendan le Grange

AI-powered lending for Colombian businesses, with Viviana Siless

More than 50% of the economic activity is informal in Latin America, and so, because of that, they don't have access to capital for growing their businesses.

And what we are trying to do is to help out to Yeah, to make it a little bit more fair for economic growth for everybody.

Obviously, you can do it with a pen and paper, but you know, I can say from experience, or at least the experience that we have, that doing it manually really doesn't work! And so really our scoring, what we are building, is to try to analyse the informal business.

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Bridges to Credit: Alternative Data and Inclusive Finance, with Santiago Espinoza

And I said, come on, what are you talking about? Everybody in Mexico has a mobile phone and in the region is the same, the same scenario.

So at the end, they are producing the little prints, I will say every second every minute of their day. So with alternative data, now they have the opportunity to go after this population.

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Global Topics, FinTech, BNPL, LATAM Brendan le Grange Global Topics, FinTech, BNPL, LATAM Brendan le Grange

Cross-border BNPL in Brazil, with Vinícius Vieira

Each time where I think that this cross border space between Brazil and the world has reached its maximum I'm wrong: every year it just keeps growing steadily and steadily and steadily.

79% of Brazilian consumers typically would divide their purchases into instalments. So this is a reality has been a reality. Now, we are also integrated with NuPay, which offers the user the capability to make a purchase with an offshore motion, and have the interest rate defined by no bank itself in the checkout process.

What we're focused on is to make the financial products available for merchants that don't have a local entity and a local structure in Brazil, so that they can great for the consumer base the same experience that our local ecommerce player can provide.

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Pioneering fintech in Uruguay, with Mateo Infantozzi

At the end of the day, what happens is that all the companies that were doing peer-to-peer lending, had to stop because the business model was not able to continue in the way the central bank wanted to do it. Fortunately for us, we were able to keep up our business: we already had a really good platform, that today is a loan management platform that we are offering to banks, to startups, financial institutions, to onboard to originate new credit lines, and to administrate manage those loans.

So basically from 2018 to today, and we will continue on this path: developing and selling our loan management system as a software as a service.

And beginning with Prezzta, what we're trying to do here is try to think and trying to innovate and help people. And as we like to say, without a doubt, we help to develop the FinTech industry.

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Gamifying a route to an ongoing credit relationship, with Jorge Enriquez

So we did this that at the beginning, the very first experiments, the very first beta test, is if you want to borrow from Credilikeme, you need to post on your wall and have 10 friends vouch for you.

And then, like that, we came up with this term of crowdsourcing your credit score.

Definitely, that was non-scalable.

It was challenging, operational wise, but we learned a lot of the willingness, we learned a lot about the willingness of people to prove they're credit worthy when there isn't enough information. And we learn that if we create this circle of trust with our user base, they would be willing to share stuff with us.

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