rewrite this title dLocal Stock Offers Volatile Exposure to Emerging Markets – Nanalyze

Investing in tech is inherently risky business. That’s why we always preach about diversifying your assets, by investing in everything from artwork and wine to (sigh) crypto and your child’s future. Actually, we’re just kidding about the last one. Diversification also involves going beyond the borders of ‘Merica. While China remains a volatile option, given both geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds, there is alpha to be generated from emerging markets in other parts of Asia and Latin America – if you can stomach those geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds.

This is why we have long been interested in Uruguay. Not only is this small South American country an island of stability in a choppy sea of destability, it was the first country in the world to fully legalize weed.

The capital, Montevideo, also happens to be the headquarters of dLocal (DLO), a fintech payments company that is quickly scaling and growing in a hotly competitive market. It now offers merchants access to more than 900 local payment methods in more than 40 countries. While cross-border transactions have been its bread and butter, the company is also quickly growing revenues through domestic payments (local-to-local transactions).