Chile has had a net neutrality law since the beginning of this year. This law helps to protect our right to access the internet without any discrimination. We’re the first country in the world to have this kind of regulation and it will help Chile to attract new business and other opportunities. Now that this [...]
Latin America has a big challenge to decrease the population of people without a bank account. In this part of the world approximately less than 20% of population have access to financial products[1], which is a huge opportunity risk for banks. This issue can be addressed in different directions and using mobile technology can be [...]
One of the hardest things to find in iOS is support for authentication methods like OAuth. While there are many solutions one of the best in my opinion is the RestKit framework. Why? For three reasons: The ability to call restful webservices using a client which parsers JSON and XML answers directly, through SSL or [...]
Banks in United States are in an exciting technological time: The eruption of mobile as a platform for payments and its transformation into a new place of banking services in their customer’s hands. But, what is happening outside of the United States? There is still a large population in Latin America, which doesn’t have access to financial [...]
Credit cards are a part of our daily life. We use them to pay dinners in restaurants, buy medical prescriptions and purchase the latest must-have gadget. A few months ago I started to think about the behavior behind different segments of credit cards (i.e. Gold, Platinum) and the motivations behind the users. I distinctly remember [...]
The worldwide banking market is experiencing deep changes: new governmental regulations and investor pressures for a better cost structure. Worldwide financial corporations buying local banks are part of the new scenario and Latin American is not an exception in this context. Big financial institutions are positioned as the most important in the region, for example: [...]
I still remember when I went to the bank with my Dad in the 90′s. That was an experience. A long line to deposit money, then we went to a huge machine where we swiped a plastic card through a reader and a long piece of paper printed the last transactions in his checking account. [...]
FUDCon (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) are events that the Fedora community produces around the world. In these conferences there are numerous talks and workshops focusing on the Fedora project. The conference also gives everyone the opportunity to highlight other key contributions in the FLOSS space. This year, I received an invitation to FUDCon in [...]
