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Re:Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US... by civilized on Friday August 12, 2022 @08:50AM (#32437747)
It looks like you basically combined FDIC-insured bank accounts with Venmo-like payment functionality and some other stuff? That seems pretty useful.

But currently Latinos mostly use Whatsapp for payments? Is that right?

Re:Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US... by Piero0909 on Friday August 12, 2022 @08:54AM (#32437786)
In part yes. We've also implemented free remittances up to $300 making it 10x better and cheaper to send money for 90% of use cases. Thanks!
Re:Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US... by toomuchtodo on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:39AM (#32438464)
Kudos to the free remittance feature, genuine social good there. Wishing y’all success!
Re:Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US... by atlasunshrugged on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:10AM (#32438919)
That's really interesting, how do you manage the conversion for the person accepting the funds abroad? Generally you have to tap into a partner network you build right? Or are you partnering up with some existing provider to use their infrastructure?
Re:Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US... by Piero0909 on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:39AM (#32439351)
Thanks! The person getting the funds can receive them in their bank account or pick it up at specific locations. They can either have a Pana profile (chat only) or not. We do have great partners including some on the infrastructure side
Re:Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US... by aaaaaaaaata on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:41AM (#32438495)
Are you avoiding mentioning ETH/cryptocurrency things because you're unlikely to integrate them, or because it's not super popular to talk about that right now?
Re:Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US... by Piero0909 on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:45AM (#32438552)
Great point! We believe there is a lot of potential on many other technologies like ETH/Crypto. We just had to start with basics and continue to evolve from there
Re:Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US... by solarkraft on Saturday August 13, 2022 @08:48AM (#32449393)
I'm genuinely confused why you think crypto currency has anything to offer for traditional banking
Re:Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US... by el-salvador on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:59PM (#32446223)
> But currently Latinos mostly use Whatsapp for payments? Is that right?

WhatsApp is widely used for almost everything in Latin America. But it doesn't support native in app payments yet.

They tried to do that in Brazil in 2020 but they were slowed down or halted for regulatory concerns.

Something we do very often is to share online payment links and bank transfer screenshots via WhatsApp.

Re:Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US... by thankful69 on Friday August 12, 2022 @11:12AM (#32439792)
Zelle in the US is the most common form of instant payment, at least in South Florida.
Re:Launch HN: Pana (YC S22) – Social Trust Banking with a US... by millzlane on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:40PM (#32442383)
It's becoming better. But my companies credit union doesn't have Zelle yet. While my state employee credit union does.