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Crypto regulations in Colombia are put on the back burner

Contxto – In human behavior, often when something is undesirable but a person does not wish to discard it entirely,...

June 12, 2020

AWS has taken Brazil, so Google Cloud has expanded into a new Latin American country

Contxto – The race among tech corporations to dominate cloud-based services in Latin America continues. Earlier this year, Amazon Web...

June 12, 2020

Mexican government rolls out initial open banking regulations

Contxto – Last week Mexico's National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) published the first set of regulations regarding open banking...

June 12, 2020

Genial Care closes seed round to help kids with autism in Brazil

Contxto – For parents with a child diagnosed with autism, it can be difficult to know how to cope and...

June 11, 2020

E-commerce in Mexico and Brazil is booming, here's what AI tech is doing about it

Contxto – During the first quarter of 2020, Visa reported that 13 million people in Latin America made their first...

June 11, 2020

Mercado Libre welcomes Le Pain Quotidien restaurant's staff onto its team

Contxto – Layoffs are the bread and butter of the coronavirus pandemic. But for restaurant chain Le Pain Quotidien, it...

June 11, 2020

Iporanga and Wayra lead US$818,000 investment in mobility startup Voll

Contxto – Brazilian mobility startup Voll is going places—literally. Thanks to its recent investment for R$4 million (around US$818,000) through...

June 11, 2020

Protera closes US$5.6 million Series A to commercialize food-preserving protein

Contxto – Today, biotech Protera announced it closed an investment to commercialize its AI-driven protein. European fund Sofinnova Partners led...

June 10, 2020

XP Investimentos acquires majority stake in fintech Fliper

Contxto – Open banking in Brazil has led XP Investimentos to review its growth strategy. And in light of the...

June 10, 2020

Zenda.la raises investment to launch free insurance packages in Mexico

Contxto – The insurance industry is definitely in need of some tech TLC—especially when it comes to approaching millennial and...

June 10, 2020