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JPMorgan will seek 500 employees in Latin America

JPMorgan intends to hire more than 500 people in Latin America in the next three years as it gains market share and takes advantage of the surge in the acquisition financing business. JPMorgan's hiring plans for the next three years will focus primarily on its Buenos Aires hub. The 500 new hires…
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Barrel of oil reaches 88 dollars

The price of a barrel of Brent quality oil, a reference for Europe, rose this Tuesday to almost reach 88 dollars, due to less concern about the impact on demand of the omicron variant and the tensions in the Middle East and Eastern Europe ,…

Unemployment in Latin America will be 28.8 million people

The number of unemployed in Latin America and the Caribbean will rise to 28.8 million people in 2022, which represents a decrease of 1.3 million unemployed in 2021, but 4.5 million more than in 2019, according to a report prepared by the…

SMEs, willing to accept payments with cryptos

A survey conducted by Visa found that one in four midsize businesses plan to implement cryptocurrency payments. In the same study, it was determined that 73% of those surveyed want to accept new forms of digital payments, this being one of…

Latin America will slow down its growth rate in 2022

Latin America and the Caribbean will decelerate their economic growth rate in 2022 to 2.1%, after having observed an average growth of 6.2% last year, according to new projections provided by the Economic Commission for Latin America and…

FMI assures that cryptomones are destabling

The growing popularity of cryptomones such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, whose market value has come to quintuplicate in recent times, reaching 3 billion dollars point to a capacity to destabilize markets that it requires approaching with a…

Venezuela ended the year with one-digit inflation

The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), in its inflationary figures published last weekend, indicated that this indicator of the country closed for the month of December at 7.6%. This keeps the Venezuelan inflationary index back in single…

Kazakhstan forced to halt bitcoin mining

Kazakhstan, which is second on the list of bitcoin miners worldwide, has recently been experiencing problems with this activity due to protests against the government. Specifically, a series of local demonstrations have forced the…

Peru will have cryptocurrency laws

Recently, the "Bill of the Cryptoassets Marketing Framework Law" was presented in the National Congress of Peru, which seeks to establish laws for cryptocurrencies. This initiative, presented by parliamentarian José Luis Avalos, also wants…

Bukele sees bitcoin at $ 100,000

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, recently made a series of predictions related to the performance of bitcoin during this year. The president of the first country to legally adopt the cryptocurrency, assured that at least two…