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Fintech Beat: On location in the Caribbean

Fintech Beat, Ep. 41

How can fintech change the domestic economy of smaller countries like Barbados?
How can fintech change the domestic economy of smaller countries like Barbados? (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted February 25, 2020 at 4:00am

Fintech Beat goes on location to Barbados to ask Avinash Persaud, a professor, investor and regulator, what small countries can do to compete as global financial technology markets.

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