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Argentina’s Ualá purchases e-commerce platform Empretienda

03-05-2022 14:14 Argentine fintech firm Ualá has bought the Empretienda e-commerce platform, its chief executive confirmed.

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Ualá launches mobile payments for small businesses in Mexico

28-04-2022 10:19 Argentina’s Ualá mobile payments company is expanding into merchant services in Mexico.

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Ualá founder raises US$30 million for LatAm venture capital fund

18-04-2022 15:13 Founder of Argentine fintech Ualá, Pierpaolo Barbieri, launches venture capital firm with US$30 million from a roster of investors.

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Argentine fintech Ualá launches in Colombia amid LatAm expansion

27-01-2022 16:42 Mobile payments startup Ualá is kicking off operations in Colombia, its third market in Latin America after Argentina and Mexico.

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Argentine fintech start-up Ualá starts its own brokerage service

08-12-2021 08:51 Company to allow dollar purchases at parallel exchange rate; Start-up is ramping up investment after last funding round.

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Argentine fintech Ualá buys Mexican bank ABC Capital

05-11-2021 02:07 Argentine financial services startup Ualá has reached an agreement to buy Mexican bank ABC Capital SA, as part of its bid to keep growing abroad.

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Argentina’s Ualá valued at US$2.45 billion after financing round

13-08-2021 12:16 Pierpaolo Barbier's Ualá valued at US$2.45 billion in a financing round led by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp and Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings.

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Argentina’s Ualá to buy billionaire Eurnekian’s digital bank

10-04-2021 08:40 Argentine fintech Ualá reached an agreement to buy local billionaire Eduardo Eurnekian’s digital bank Wilobank, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Fintech firm Ualá takes mobile payments to small businesses

06-12-2020 16:59 Ualá, the mobile payments company backed by heavyweight investors, is expanding into merchant services in Argentina, launching a number of services for small businesses.

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Billionaire-backed Argentine fintech Ualá launches in Mexico

29-09-2020 15:30 Ualá, the mobile payments startup backed by heavyweight billionaire investors George Soros and Steve Cohen, expands beyond Argentina into Mexico.