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Archive for January, 2022

Categories : CDPI Emerging Markets
Dates : January 2022

Inside Latin America’s creator economy: Rich in influence, poor in cash

January 27, 2022
There’s an open opportunity to build dedicated creator tools. Hundreds of creators we surveyed last year cited difficulty in the production and administrative demands of content creation. Pricing and contracting are also major friction points, alongside tech platforms’ shifting rules and algorithms. In some ways, the rapid growth of Latin America’s large creator base is also its challenge: everyone wants to be an influencer. In part, this gold-rush phenomenon has caused a fragmentation of revenues, shrinking paychecks for any single creator.
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Payments orchestration smooths LatAm’s path to digital commerce hub

January 27, 2022
Latin America is renowned for romance, and that embraces the world of finance, too. As some see it, 2022 is lining up as a year of greater digital payments passion for this fascinating region. Payments orchestration platforms facilitate this blossoming digital democratization of finance by optimizing around business drivers, ensuring payments success rates, strengthening partnerships and chipping away at regional issues, like providing digital front doors for large unbanked populations.
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Brazilian fintech Creditas lands $4.8B valuation and Fidelity as an investor after revenue jumps in 2021

January 27, 2022
Creditas es a fintech providing financial solutions to our marketplace customers, launching new products, extending our geographic reach. Fidelity Management & Research LLC led Creditas’s latest investment, which also included participation from other new investors Spanish fintech fund Actyus and Greentrail Capital. Existing backers also put money in the Series F round, including QED Investors, VEF, SoftBank Vision Fund 1, SoftBank Latin America Fund, Kaszek Ventures, Lightock, Headline, Wellington Management and Advent International, via affiliate Sunley House Capital.
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TCS to be launch partner for Microsoft Cloud for Retail

January 27, 2022
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Tuesday announced that it is now a partner for the newly-launched Microsoft Cloud for Retail, expanding its collaboration with the company. Microsoft Cloud for Retail is an industry-specific cloud that brings together various Microsoft technologies, linked by a common data model to connect experiences across the end-to-end shopper journey with integrated and intelligent capabilities.
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From Nykaa to Zomato, big IPO winners in India take a beating in global selloff

January 27, 2022
India’s new stock listings are losing their edge as a worsening outlook for global equities leads investors to take profit from high-profile consumer technology stocks that debuted with inflated valuations. The S&P BSE IPO Index, which tracks firms for two years since their listing, has plunged about 10% since the start of the year and is headed for its worst month since March 2020 when the pandemic took hold.
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2022 signals last-minute scramble to implement first-party data strategies and martech integrations for the Australian market

January 27, 2022
2022 will be a critical year for marketers. Digital and eCommerce are accelerating, and Google’s 2023 plan to end support for third-party cookies is Chrome inching closer. Criteo’s 2021 research reveals Australia is increasingly open to video ads. Over 50 percent of Australians are happy to watch video streaming services with advertising if it means they save money.
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Indonesia’s SaaS startup Lummo secures US$80M funding, unveils flagship product’s rebranding

January 27, 2022
Indonesian software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup Lummo, previously known as BukuKas, has raised US$80 million in its Series C round of funding. Lummo was launched in December 2019 as BukuKas, a bookkeeping app for MSMEs, with the objective of empowering and digitizing them. It later expanded its business by launching TOKKO, an online direct-to-consumer commerce builder.
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