NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 1 – Global financial infrastructure company Tala has expanded into Guatemala as it deepens its presence in Latin America, with plans to enter the Dominican Republic and Panama before the end of 2025.
The firm is leveraging its proprietary “Tala in a Box” platform — a modular system integrating credit assessment, payments execution, and financial identity services — to accelerate entry into new markets.
While financial inclusion has grown across Latin America, access to essential products such as credit remains limited for many consumers. Tala says its technology addresses this gap by combining AI-driven credit scoring with payments and lending solutions tailored for underserved populations.
The company, which has disbursed about $7 billion in credit globally, reported serving over 12 million customers to date, including two million added in 2025 alone. In Mexico — its fastest-growing market — Tala has issued 20 million loans to nearly four million customers over the past eight years.
Earlier this year, Tala disclosed it is building on a three-year compound annual revenue growth rate of 35 percent.
The latest expansion signals the firm’s strategy to scale its technology-driven financial services footprint across emerging markets, following a decade of operations in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America.
