(Repeats with no changes) MEXICO CITY, March 19 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group has raised $695 million from Mexican pension funds for its first two local private equity funds, filings showed, joining Black Rock and KKR & Co in expanding in Mexico following regulatory changes. Several of the world’s top private equity managers have quietly raised billions of dollars from Mexican pension funds, known as afores, since new rules were enacted early last year, filings to the Mexican Stock Exchange...

(Repeats for additional clients with no changes to text) By Stefanie Eschenbacher and Anna Irrera MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Mexico’s new leftist government is betting on financial technology to help lift people out of poverty. The administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recently announced measures aimed at making financial services more affordable in a nation where more than half the population is unbanked. It is planning a digital payments system run and built...

MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mexico’s new leftist government is betting on financial technology to help lift people out of poverty. FILE PHOTO: A worker moves boxes with green tomatoes through the corridors of the wholesale market "Central de Abastos" in Mexico City, Mexico January 11, 2019. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo The administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recently announced measures aimed at making financial services more affordable in a nation where more...

(Repeats for wider distribution, no change to headline or text) MEXICO CITY, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Mexico’s next government will look to fintech companies and large corporate banks to increase financial inclusion in the country, where only one-third of adults have a bank account, senior officials said on Tuesday. Arturo Herrera, one of two future deputy finance ministers, said in an interview that the lack of financial inclusion was one of the biggest obstacles in the new government’s fight...