International Finance Corporation
YellowPepper Closes $19 Million in round Led by LIV Capital
YellowPepper, a Latin American pioneer in mobile banking and payment solutions, has landed $19 billion in a Series C round led by LIV Capital. Investors include Mexico Ventures, a program managed by Sun Mountain Capital (a US-based venture fund), Fondo de Fondos, International Finance Corporation / World Bank Group and

Big Data for Education
The World Bank Group and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), are trying to harness big data’s potential to support national education systems, with their recently launched ‘Systems Approach for Better Education Results’ initiative, which collects and shares comparative data on educational policies and institutions from countries