Endeavor

11 LE A P FI NA N CIA L LIONEL CARRASCOL USA Leap Financial has developed a cross-border payments platform called Numi. Every Numi user gets a bank account linked to a virtual or physical debit card. Numi's mobile wallet enables people in the US and in LatAm to pay and get paid, with cash or plastic, domestically or cross border. F 1 FERNANDO SUCRE Colombia F1 is Colombia's first digital secured loans platform. It's unfair advantage is a unique distribution channel that reduces adverse selection and achieves very low acquisition costs. FI N CO N ECTA ALEJANDRA PEREZ & JORGE RUIZ USA Finconecta is an enterprise software company driving the digitization of the financial services industry with its proprietary middleware platform, 4wrd, which connects financial institutions to fintechs via standardized API integration. Finconecta provides the technology infrastructure to connect legacy core banking systems to existing fintech solutions around the world and also offers digital transformation consulting to create a road map for financial institutions to implement digital strategies into their core infrastructure. G RU PO A R S RONALD NANKERVIS Ecuador Grupo ARS offers distressed asset management, debt collection, and call center services to financial institutions and corporations with a focus on consumer debt. Through specialized services and technology, the group helps to recover written-off portfolios, while working closely with individual debtors to develop new repayment plans and ultimately reintegrate them into the financial system. Grupo ARS is currently active in Ecuador, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala, a regional market opportunity of nearly $780 million.

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