Bre-B Reaches 11.6M While Rollout Faces Delay
Hey Payments Fanatic!
Last Friday, I shared news from Colombia with Félix Pago, making its way into the country. Today, I’m back with another update from there, this time about Bre-B.
It’s been just a month and a half since the launch and already reached 11.6 million users, that’s about 22% of Colombia’s population. Amazing, right?
But not everything is moving as fast as expected. The rollout was planned for September, but Credibanco’s president, Felipe Acevedo, revealed it will now happen on October 9.
As he put it, the team is still working with the Central Bank on “an articulated and organized schedule of the proper tests for the functioning of the different layers of the nodes, with the entity’s infrastructure.”
To be continued...
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