View of the logo of Brazilian FinTech startup Nubank outside its headquarters, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 9, 2021.
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View of the logo of Brazilian FinTech startup Nubank outside its headquarters, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 9, 2021.
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When’s the last time you visited the bank? With so much banking happening online now, some banks don’t even have physical locations anymore. And that’s not just happening in the U.S. — Mexico has become fertile ground for purely digital banks, known as neobanks.
Many adults in Mexico don’t have any kind of bank account, and a lot of those people are young and tech savvy. Fintech startups see this as their window of opportunity to leapfrog over in-person analog banking and get people to start online banking.
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