More on this: The money transfer feature works in other Western Hemisphere countries—including the US, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile—plus markets farther out from Brazil like the UK, Australia, Portugal, and Japan. Remessa Online expects the Nubank partnership to amp up its user base from the 350,000 it has served within the last 12 months to 1 million.

An example is this: Until last year, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were three of the least developed ecommerce markets in Western Europe, per a Eurostat report from January 2020. But as of May 2020, 53% of internet users ages 18 to 75 in Portugal had made a digital purchase during lockdown, according to data from marketing agency MARCO.

PayPal also expanded its business debit card into Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, and Portugal. The PayPal Business Debit Mastercard gives merchants instant access to their PayPal balances and lets them spend the funds wherever Mastercard is accepted. The card offers 1% cashback on transactions processed as credit and can be added to most mobile wallets.

Younited Credit has granted more than €2.4 billion ($2.74 billion) in credit and operates in France, Spain, Portugal, and Germany—though its home market still represents 60% of its revenues. What’s next? Younited Credit will look for more opportunities to embed its products into ecommerce platforms, a market that’s heating up in France.

Despite breaking from its colonial past with Spain and Portugal roughly 200 years ago, Latin America’s advertising industry is still plagued by a notable lack of diversity and representation.

Despite Latin America breaking from its colonial past with Spain and Portugal roughly 200 years ago, its advertising industry is still troubled by a notable lack of diversity and representation.

Social time did climb YoY in several countries, including France, Portugal, and India. But these increases were often small. Moreover, time spent with social actually fell in Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, and the Philippines, to name a few.

Third-party financial services providers in eight new markets including Portugal, Ireland, and Lithuania can now access consumers’ bank account information via the fintech’s API, per AltFi. Launched in 2019, the API processes over 150 million transactions every year.

By comparison, those shares in Portugal were 84.7% and 53.0%, respectively, and in Germany, they were 87.9% and 52.2%. Spain registered higher values for both devices, at 87.2% and 59.4%. UK internet users registered 92.6% smartphone penetration in H1 2019. This figure also fell below comparable values in Portugal (96.1%), Germany (93.6%) and Spain (97.2%).