Argentina-based Payment Operator enBitcoins Expands To Colombia
Recently, Argentina-based payment operator enBitcoins expanded its services to Colombia. The company’s CEO and founder, Marcelo Guillen told CoinTelegraph they are offering the benefits of Bitcoin utility payments to local residents. Five days ago they posted a small announcement about the launch of their Colombian office at Tarringa. enBitcoins was the first Bitcoin bills payment service in Argentina. They allow users to pay bills via the Internet without the need to go out of your home. They charge a 2% fee for their services. enBitcoins doesn’t require any government papers to use their....
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In the last week of January, Argentina-based operator enBitcoins expanded its services to Mexico. Mexican residents can not only pay utility bills but also send and receive money. It seems like the company is moving forward with its goal of conquering Latin America. Previously, CoinTelegraph had written about enBitcoins expanding to Colombia. As judged from the short period of time between opening in two countries, the company is quite speedy in its expansion. Mexicans now can benefit from utility payments through the enBitcoins platform as well as residents of Colombia and Argentina.....
Colombia may ban Bitcoin transactions next week. El Tiempo is reporting that Colombia is planning to ban all Bitcoin-related transactions next week. This news comes as quite a shock because the fact of the matter is Colombia is not exactly the first country that people think about when it comes to hotspots of cryptocurrency. The Finance Superintendent of Colombia has claimed that virtual currencies are not safe because they have no backing from government. He claims that Colombia already has a safe and useful currency and there's no reason for people to use bitcoins. The El Tiempo article....
OmbuShop has announced a new partnership that will allow 2,000 merchants in Latin America to add bitcoin as a payment option for their online stores. Founded in 2011, the e-commerce website provider primarily caters to clothing and accessory merchants. OmbuShop is based in Argentina, but serves Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Spain. Speaking to CoinDesk, OmbuShop CEO Ernesto Tagwerker described the service as one way his company is looking to embrace the future of online shopping while enabling its international merchants to sell more effectively in a global economy. Tagwerker told CoinDesk:....
Founded in 2014 in Mexico, Bitso is now officially present in Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador and Colombia. Bitso, a major Latin American cryptocurrency exchange and El Salvador’s crypto wallet assistant firm, has announced its formal launch in Colombia.As part of Bitso’s development strategy in Colombia, the exchange has hired former Mastercard executive Emilio Pardo as new country manager, the firm announced to Cointelegraph on Thursday.Pardo is former head of business development for the Andean Region at Mastercard, where he focused on fintech issues like instant and cross-border....
Bitso, a Mexico-based cryptocurrency exchange, is expanding and strengthening its push into the Colombian market in the midst of growing interest in these new technologies in the country. Bitso has appointed Emilio Pardo as a new country manager, to debut the start of operations in Colombia in partnership with Banco de Bogota.
Bitso Enters Colombian Market
Bitso, a Mexican cryptocurrency exchange with more than four million customers, has set its sights on Colombia for its expansion. The company is now part of the regulatory crypto sandbox established in the country as part of....