The Rise and Impact of Fintech in Latin America

By Bas B. Bakker, Beatriz Garcia-Nunes, Weicheng Lian, Yang Liu, Camila Perez Marulanda, Adam Siddiq, Mariusz A. Sumlinski, Yuanchen Yang, Dmitry Vasilyev

March 29, 2023

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Bas B. Bakker, Beatriz Garcia-Nunes, Weicheng Lian, Yang Liu, Camila Perez Marulanda, Adam Siddiq, Mariusz A. Sumlinski, Yuanchen Yang, and Dmitry Vasilyev. The Rise and Impact of Fintech in Latin America, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2023) accessed December 23, 2024

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In the past decade, fintech has shaken up the financial sector in Latin America providing innovations in lending, payments, insurance, and regulation and compliance. This paper examines this development by focusing on both fintech services and regulation. Exploring fintech’s macro-critical impact using country- and bank-level data, we find that booming financial technologies in Latin America have helped boost competition in the banking sector and inclusion. Additionally, we demonstrate that fintech firms in Latin America experienced robust growth even during the pandemic supported by external funding. Finally, we discuss how regulators are addressing the risks associated with financial technologies and how they are leveraging fintech tools in their supervisory activities.

Subject: Economic sectors, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial sector policy and analysis

Keywords: Financial development, Financial inclusion, Financial regulation, Financial risks, Fintech, Latin America

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61
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Fintech Notes No 2023/003
Stock No:

FTNEA2023003
ISBN:

9798400235474
ISSN:

2664-5912

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