{"id":12382,"date":"2023-05-04T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T10:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rclawllp.net\/?p=12382"},"modified":"2024-10-05T08:49:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T08:49:50","slug":"openpass-telecom-argentina-equity-joint-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/openpass-telecom-argentina-equity-joint-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"RC Law Advised OpenPass on a Joint Venture with Telecom Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2235\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rclawus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Openpass-Telecom-Argentina.png?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rclawus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Openpass-Telecom-Argentina.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rclawus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Openpass-Telecom-Argentina.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rclawus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Openpass-Telecom-Argentina.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rclawus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Openpass-Telecom-Argentina.png?resize=705%2C529&amp;ssl=1 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>RC Law has advised <strong>OpenPass Holding Corp.<\/strong>, a Delaware company, in connection with its issuance of shares of common stock to Telecom Argentina S.A., representing 50% of the company\u2019s capital stock, on a fully diluted basis.\u00a0 Telecom Argentina is one of the largest companies in Argentina and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (New YorkSE: TEO).\u00a0 OpenPass Holding\u2019s Argentine subsidiary is a fintech company, providing financial technology and other digital solutions.\u00a0 The strategic alliance has the principal purpose of jointly developing Telecom Argentina\u2019s electronic wallet platform, known as Personal Pay. \u00a0Argentine counsel was <strong>Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim &amp; Miani<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">Press Release &#8211; Forbes Argentina<\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">Telecom adquiere una participaci\u00f3n en la empresa OpenPass para seguir consolidando su operaci\u00f3n fintech<\/span><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Como parte del fortalecimiento de la operaci\u00f3n de Personal Pay,Telecom y OpenPass firman este acuerdo de participaci\u00f3n que posibilitar\u00e1 continuar el camino de evoluci\u00f3n de la billetera virtual de Personal en el mercado local y regional, y potenciar la llegada de OpenPass a nuevos clientes e industrias, trascendiendo las fronteras de LATAM.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Telecom y OpenPass cierran un acuerdo estrat\u00e9gico\u00a0<\/strong>con el objetivo de potenciarse en el mercado fintech, con fuerte foco en consolidar el negocio local y en la regionalizaci\u00f3n de soluciones tecnol\u00f3gicas financieras.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Desde el lanzamiento de<strong>\u00a0Personal Pay, la billetera virtual de Personal,<\/strong>\u00a0OpenPass ha sido una pieza central para su desarrollo, aportando el core fintech y el time to market sobre el cual se apalanc\u00f3, y contribuyendo al r\u00e1pido lanzamiento y crecimiento durante el primer a\u00f1o en el mercado.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Con esta nueva participaci\u00f3n accionaria, Telecom, de la mano de Personal Pay, junto a OpenPass,\u00a0ahora como socios estrat\u00e9gicos, consolidan su operaci\u00f3n<strong>\u00a0fintech para la Argentina<\/strong>\u00a0y potencian la expansi\u00f3n en la regi\u00f3n, ofreciendo soluciones b2b a nuevos mercados.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cEsta alianza estrat\u00e9gica para Personal Pay, es una oportunidad para seguir escalando e impulsando nuestra propuesta de servicios financieros digitales, tanto para individuos con nuestra billetera virtual como para empresas, aportando nuevas soluciones de mayor valor a nuevos clientes\/empresas de Argentina, Paraguay y otros mercados. De esta forma, reforzamos la operaci\u00f3n de Personal Pay en el pa\u00eds y buscamos ser una plataforma de referencia que nos permita escalar y brindar las mejores soluciones tecnol\u00f3gicas financieras en la regi\u00f3n\u201d,\u00a0<strong>expres\u00f3Mart\u00edn Heine, director de Digital Growth de Telecom Argentina.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Sebasti\u00e1n Tamanaha, CEO de OpenPass afirm\u00f3:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cNuestro objetivo en OpenPass es ser el habilitador tecnol\u00f3gico que permita a cualquier empresa desarrollar su capa de servicios financieros propios y su costado Fintech. Sumar un socio del calibre de Telecom es un orgullo y nos da la posibilidad de seguir creciendo y continuar innovando, pudiendo as\u00ed ofrecer nuestros servicios a la regi\u00f3n, apostando al desarrollo de la econom\u00eda en Latinoam\u00e9rica&#8221;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Este nuevo paso permitir\u00e1 acelerar las iniciativas de trabajo conjunto, que ya est\u00e1n en marcha, y desarrollar las mejores alternativas de innovaci\u00f3n en b\u00fasqueda de nuevas soluciones y funcionalidades para el mercado local y la regi\u00f3n. \u00a0De esta forma, Telecom, con su billetera virtual Personal Pay junto a OpenPass, contin\u00faan consolid\u00e1ndose como actores clave de la industria Fintech en la Argentina y Latinoam\u00e9rica.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbesargentina.com\/negocios\/telecom-adquiere-una-participacion-empresa-openpass-seguir-consolidando-su-operacion-fintech-n33021\">https:\/\/www.forbesargentina.com\/negocios\/telecom-adquiere-una-participacion-empresa-openpass-seguir-consolidando-su-operacion-fintech-n33021<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">Press Release &#8211; Euro ES<\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">Telecom acquired a stake in the company OpenPass to consolidate its fintech operation<\/span><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Telecom<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>OpenPass<\/strong> closed a strategic agreement with the objective of strengthening themselves in the fintech market with a strong focus on consolidating the local business and the regionalization of financial technology solutions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cThis strategic alliance is an opportunity to continue scaling and promoting our digital financial services proposal, both for individuals with our virtual wallet and for companies, providing new higher value solutions to new clients\/companies in Argentina, Paraguay and other markets. In this way, we strengthen the operation of Personal Pay in the country and seek to be a reference platform that allows us to scale and provide the best financial technology solutions in the region,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Martin Heine<\/strong> Director of Digital Growth at Telecom Argentina.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The telco explained that since the launch of Personal Pay, Personal\u2019s virtual wallet, OpenPass has been a central piece for its development, \u201cproviding the\u00a0<em>core fintech<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>time to market<\/em>\u00a0on which it was leveraged, contributing to the rapid launch and growth during the first year in the market\u201d. Thus, the company will seek to consolidate its local fintech operation and promote expansion in the region by offering b2b solutions to new markets.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Sebastian Tamanaha<\/strong>, CEO of OpenPass stated: \u201cOur goal at OpenPass is to be the technological enabler that allows any company to develop its own financial services layer and its fintech side. Adding a partner of the caliber of Telecom is a source of pride and gives us the opportunity to continue growing and innovating, thus being able to offer our services to the region, betting on the development of the economy in Latin America\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/euro.eseuro.com\/business\/265723.html\">https:\/\/euro.eseuro.com\/business\/265723.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RC Law has advised OpenPass Holding Corp., a Delaware company, in connection with its issuance of shares of common stock to Telecom Argentina S.A., representing 50% of the company\u2019s capital stock, on a fully diluted basis.\u00a0 Telecom Argentina is one of the largest companies in Argentina and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-12382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-xavier-ruiz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rclawus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Openpass-Telecom-Argentina.png?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14255,"href":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions\/14255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rclawus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}