Monthly Archives: August 2021

There are some areas of the industry that have been becoming more dynamic, generating disruptive products and services that are accelerating the combination of technology with traditional financial platforms to achieve innovation and make transactions, investments, access to financial products and services much simpler. It is precisely here where we will find companies that develop [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic, which took the world by surprise, has accelerated digitalization in all areas of economic and social life. Trade has not been immune to this process. Although aggregate data are not yet available, in the first few months of the year, there has already been an unprecedented expansion of eCommerce in various Latin [...]

The retail landscape is more complex and more online than ever. In this increasingly attuned space, categories are converging like never before as companies battle for users' free time. Media, gaming, retail, exercise, cooking, and education all sit side-by-side, competing for a small slice of consumer bandwidth in the attention economy. Jason Simon, an eCommerce [...]

The FinTech industry is one of the big winners in the new global economy, increasingly digitized and with greater personalization of services that also generate more added value, even in apparently more traditional segments such as the financial sector. FinTech companies are those that, thanks to the combined efforts of new technologies and a continuous [...]

The use of blockchain technology in the logistics sector brings significant advantages in terms of security, transparency, and efficiency. To date, however, its application is still minimal. According to figures from PwC, the top three barriers to the adoption of blockchain technology are regulatory uncertainty (48%), lack of trust among users (45%), and the ability [...]

A digital-only artwork recently sold at Christie's auction house for $69 million. However, the winning bidder will never receive a physical sculpture, painting, or print. Instead, what was delivered is a unique digital token better known as a non-fungible token (NFT). Cryptocurrency and FinTech expert Jason Simon is intimately familiar with the latest addition to [...]