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Lower taxes, sunnier weather, and growing business opportunities are prompting many Latinos to relocate from traditional hotspots like California or New York to Texas or non-traditional destinations like the Carolinas. But what drives this group's economic success?.

They are concentrated especially in the southwestern border states, Florida, and New York, and in some states – such as California and Texas – now make up a majority of the state population.

Over six out of ten Hispanics in the US come from Mexico, while Colombians, Cubans, Dominicans, and Central Americans are also well represented.

Impressive, no? Especially given lower-ranked countries – Brazil, yes, but also India, Indonesia, and Russia – number in the hundreds of millions and sometimes even billions of people.

With nearly $4T in economic output, US Latinos fall behind only Japan, Germany, China, and (of course) the United States overall. Otherwise, they outperform every other country despite numbering just 65M people in total.

Today Brazil remains Latin America's largest economy by gross domestic product (GDP), but it trails a related demographic group — the Latin American diaspora living in the United States.

Last April, Brazil reentered the coveted top-ten list of the world's largest economies, some years after having fallen out due to economic crisis and stagnation.

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So what did the company get wrong? In the age-old debate of capital allocation, where should banks be putting their (and your) money to maximize their returns?. [story continues. 💌].

Despite its backing by hundreds of millions of VC dollars, Uala has seen limited lending and an abysmal ROE of -139.5%.

On the flip side you’ve got Ualá, an ambitious fintech originating in Argentina which has thus far struggled to adapt to the capital demands of full banking in Mexico.

This pure investment-driven model lets the bank thrive without growing its credit risk—an alternate path to the one upheld by classic giant lenders like BBVA and Banorte, which leave 50-70% of their assets in credit and subsequently achieve over 20% ROE.

Banco Base, surprisingly, has just 12% of its assets in loans, and 70% in investments, in the process earning over 30% ROE.