Tagged: ecuador

February 6, 2023 @ 10:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ecuador-based BuenTrip Ventures, a Latin American-focused VC fund, and accelerator, has secured its first institutional investor in its second fund. The funding included the participation of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) through IDB Lab. IDB Lab aims to support innovation and the development of the… Read More

February 10, 2022 @ 5:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Surecomp has announced that Banco Pichincha – Ecuador’s financial institution with $4.5 billion in assets – has chosen its trade finance processing tech for front-to-back-office operations. The bank will deploy Surecomp’s Cloud-enabled Trade Finance-as-a-Service (TFaaS) solution “to support the growth of current and future trade… Read More

September 6, 2021 @ 10:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Diners Club International has extended its partnership with BPC in Latin America. BPC offers payments, wallets, and banking features via its platform. According to a statement from the company, after selecting BPC’s SmartVista for commerce in Peru, Diners Club has turned to BPC once again… Read More

September 5, 2019 @ 2:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital currency for payments and e-commerce platform Dash announced on Thursday it is now accepted at over 1,000 new merchants and more than 250 ATMs through its partnership with IQ CashNow, a full-service provider specializing in cryptocurrency ATMs, point-of-sale (POS) terminals and e-commerce websites. Dash… Read More

October 6, 2014 @ 1:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

International educational partner Free the Children, and Vancouver-based social enterprise, Change Heroes, have teamed up in an effort to create change in a revolutionary way, with an unprecedented online funding platform. Deep in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador, there is a small, remote, indigenous community called Mondaña, which… Read More

August 29, 2013 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

In a flexible funding campaign on Indiegogo, Environmental group No Drill Ecuador a huge fundraising effort to crowdfund $1.8 Billion in an effort to  halt oil drilling in the Amazon rain forest located in Ecuador.  More PR campaign than realistic crowdfunding project, the initiative was… Read More