While there is no doubt that 2016 was not a banner year and 2017 looks to be a light growth year for Latin America…there is more good news than you’d expect. One bright spot is in the amount of markets with strong growth in Latin America, which we detail below. And as 2017 moves forward, Guillaume Corpart—our healthcare practice leader—runs the numbers and identifies 3 market indicators that suggest good growth in LatAm healthcare is on the way for 2017. Finally, with Brazil as the #3 market in the world for Uber and 300,000 Airbnb hosts in LatAm, it’s clear that online marketplaces are yet another growth area for the region. But the problem here is payments: how to pay so many sellers and buyers with so many unbanked people in the region? Lindsay Lehr—our payments practice director—explains how this can be done…and the great opportunity this solution offers for payments companies. As always, we hope you will find this issue to be valuable. Please continue to share your feedback, positive or otherwise—it really helps us better our practice