American corporate cards issuer Brex has launched an office in Vancouver, Canada, which marks its first-ever international location.
Vancouver’s deep talent pool and workforce with diverse skills are said to play a key role in the selection of the region for its new office.
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The Canada outpost will initially have staff strength of around 40. The workforce will mainly include software engineering and customer experience functions.
Plans are on to hire a diverse team, representing various countries and origins.
Brex founders Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Fransceschi are focusing on hiring staff from different backgrounds.
Brex VP of Engineering and executive sponsor for the Vancouver office Cosmin Nicolaescu said: “Brex benefits from a broad range of perspectives stemming from our internationally diverse workforce of immigrants as well as American- and Canadian-born nationals.
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By GlobalData“Technology, and payments specifically, are by their nature global industries, so Brex products and services are improved by our team’s multitude of experiences, connections and context.”
Developments at Brex
In February 2019, Brex agreed to issue the World Elite Mastercard for Business. In October of the same year, Brex expanded its alliance with Mastercard.
In November 2019, Brex integrated its instant signup and card issuance technology with Rippling’s automated employee onboarding solution.
In the same month, Brex and Bank of the West launched a co-branded card for emerging firms and small multinationals in the US.
Last August, Brex also joined Magento Technology Partner programme.
