PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

What will it take to make Latin America more digital — in payments, commerce, FinTech or even healthcare? Cash remains king in the region, with about two-thirds of consumers in Latin America preferring that payment method over credit, according to estimates. Healthcare seems likely to play a role.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2017

The number of Mastercard cards increased 6 percent in the Americas in 2015, which compares to a 4 percent increase for Visa, but Visa still holds the spot as the largest card scheme in the region, reported RBR. According to RBR’s Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2021 study, Visa had 43 percent of the 2.9

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2017

The International Card Manufacturing Association (ICMA) is out with a new report that finds 70 percent of all financial cards have a chip embedded in them. In a press release issued Tuesday (May 16), the ICMA said chip cards account for 88.6 percent of revenue for cards globally manufactured in 2016. in revenue in 2016.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2019

Shops in Mexico started asking customers to pay with cash after several of the country’s biggest banks started having issues handling debit and credit card payments, Reuters reported on Saturday (Aug. Reuters reported that it was not immediately clear whether cards other than those issued by Banorte, HSBC and Santander were affected. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Spend controls were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to feature and program launches. This week’s commercial card innovation tracker includes a rollout of the next generation of authorization controls from Comdata Inc., Coupa Connects With American Express For B2B Virtual Card Payments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Latin America is a land of opportunity, but it also presents challenges that demand an on-the-ground understanding of commerce and transacting within the various countries and cultures that it comprises. Another key factor is that over 60 percent of eCommerce in Latin America is done via installments. “If

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

To get a sense of the new frontiers in cybercrime, and how cryptocurrency helps fraudsters cover their tracks or finance their schemes … look, perhaps, to Latin America. Separately, in terms of fraud against companies, banking trojans, malware and ransomware have been coming from the Latin American region, the paper said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The subscription commerce sector is growing, with Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America-based subscription companies experiencing more than 300 percent growth in subscription sales from 2012 to 2019. Cards get turned off, expire or are lost, consumers move and billing ZIP codes change. Emerging Markets .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

billion EMV cards in circulation worldwide as of the end of 2016. billion cards over the last 12 months. percent of all card-present transactions globally were handled with EMV tech — a 35.8 percent; Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean have seen adoption at 75.7 That represents an increase by about 1.3 and Asia.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

percent of all cards issued globally by the end of 2017 were EMV-enabled. In addition, the number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world increased by 1 billion over the previous 12 months — to a total of 7.1 Regionally, the EMV chip card adoption rate is highest in Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean (85.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

Global technical body EMVCo has released its updated report on the number of EMV chip payment cards, saying that the figure has increased 1.4 percent of all card-present transactions conducted globally between Jan. EMVCo also broke down EMV chip card adoption rate by regions: Europe Zone 1: 84.3% (up from 83.5%

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

According to a press release from Market Research Future , North America is the leader in the wireless POS market as the region has “advanced technological infrastructure.” As a result, the region can be an “early adopter” of the technology. Card Payment Acceptance. Mobile Wallets.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

Bank of America (BoA) has expanded its mobile wallet use to include corporate customers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC) regions, hoping to enhance clients’ experiences through faster and more secure business transactions, according to a press release. and Canada.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

WEX and ExxonMobil are apparently pleased with their current partnership to offer fleet payment cards. The deal sees WEX offering a commercial card program across the U.S. ” WEX offers fleet commercial card solutions to help fleet managers and their businesses manage spend. .” The companies announced Thursday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Visa President Ryan McInerney said that beyond the core card business there remains the opportunity to “capture new flows of money using our expanding network of networks.” The truth is that we are just getting started with the electronification of payments in North America,” he said. At its investor day presentation Tuesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

based Volopa has unveiled contactless multi-currency prepaid cards and India- based Obopay purchased mobile app company Mubble. London-based Volopa has unveiled contactless multi-currency prepaid cards geared toward businesses and consumers, according to reports. In addition, U.K. In the U.K.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2020

Credit card giant Visa has filed an application for a U.S. 100 for User A in America, 200 pesos for User B in Mexico and so forth) in order to perform transactions in a secure, fast and reliable way.”. A central entity may maintain exclusive rights to create or destroy currency in a region such as a nation.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

One way to cut the paper chase is for companies to embrace commercial card products, which can speed payments and aggregate information alongside those payments, while reducing errors and eliminating security risks typically associated with ACH transactions. He offered an example in which a U.S.

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Celent Banking

APRIL 25, 2016

Digital is the new reality in Latin America. In Latin America the major milestones in Digital development we had seen were Nubank (Brazil – Market Cap $500M) and Bankaool (Mexico – ~$142M in assets), until March of 2016 when Banco Original (~$1,67Bn in assets) launched in Brazil.

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JULY 23, 2020

Open banking has been picking up steam in Latin America for more than two years. Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. the region. Open Banking And Digital Readiness.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The cash flow challenges for small businesses have been in place for a while, in Latin America since well before the pandemic took root. In Latin America, the infrastructure mainly relies on banks to provide kind of these types of services to the SME segment. trillion globally, according to Shoihet.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The region is technologically advanced, but still has a large percentage of underbanked consumers, says PPRO's Javier Vallaure.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

percent of card present transactions, measured globally, were EMV chip-enabled, the technical body said Wednesday. That tally comes from card-present contact and contactless transactions that were monitored globally and spanned the period between July 2016 through June of this year. billion cards over the previous 12 months.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2019

The move is another move by Japan’s SoftBank Group — which is a shareholder in Uber — to integrate its business in Latin America. In July, Uber partnered with Mastercard and financial institution BBVA to offer a debit card to drivers in Mexico to promote banking in what is mostly a cash country.

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The Paypers

JUNE 17, 2022

The payments player Visa has launched its first crypto cards in the Latin America region – and will debut its new products in Brazil and Argentina via several new partner firms.

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The Paypers

APRIL 10, 2019

(The Paypers) Mastercard has partnered with Germany-based Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) Mobile Security to accelerate issuance of contactless cards in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

As defined regionally, the U.S. billion, and total cards in the field gained 5 percent to 2.6 There have been signs of stabilization in regions such as Asia, management said on the call. Cross-border payments can be broken down roughly between card present and card not present transactions. percent to $810 billion.

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Bobsguide

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Remittances to Latin America are big business. According to research by The Dialogue, the value of remittances to 17 countries in the region grew by over 8% from 2016 to 2017, reaching over $75bn. economic growth for the entire region. This increase far exceeds the World Bank’s forecasted 1.2%

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But he said that since the region’s average monthly income is less than $400, “we knew if we wanted to go massive, we would have to go downscale.”. Despite low average incomes, Latin America offers a huge overall market size and growth potential. The spirit of the people in Latin America will prevail.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Marqeta , the high-flying card issuing platform, is getting a financial boost from a longtime business partner, Mastercard. The California-based FinTech, whose open API platform enables companies like Square, DoorDash and Instacart to issue credit and debit cards and process payments, announced Thursday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

25) from Verizon Communications, full compliance with the PCI DSS (short for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) dropped last year, the first decline seen in six years. The study noted that there are some regional differences, as 77.8 percent of firms in the Asia Pacific region were fully PCI compliant, far outpacing the 46.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

found that Chinese tourists are traveling to more destinations, including Latin America, the Balkans, Laos and Myanmar. In order to meet the payment needs of the travelers, UnionPay said it has extended its footprint to 174 countries and regions. Another survey by glz.com.cn On the eve of the Spring Festival, merchants in the U.K.,

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Payments Source

MARCH 21, 2017

Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile commerce division of France's Ingenico, has signed an agreement with Air China to accept Discover Card payments in North America, a key market for the Beijing-based airline, with plans to expand to other regions later this year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

To get a sense where all this might be headed, earlier this year, the company’s Osvaldo Giménez , executive vice president and CEO of FinTech, which includes Mercado Pago, told PYMNTS, “the most relevant variables across Latin America are banking penetration and credit card penetration.” And mPOS has also been gaining traction.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

There has been a lot of interest from China toward the Latin American region, with companies like Didi Chuxing , Huawei and Baidu all looking for investments in the area. It’s about learning from their experience in China and in other Asian markets to inform our Latin America strategy,” Barbieri told Reuters.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

UnionPay International (UPI), a cross-border payments company based in China , has signed an agreement with Latin American bank NIBank to bring payment solutions, including prepaid cards, to the region. NIBank will license and develop the payment methods, and customers in the Caribbean and South America will be the main recipients.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The partnership, announced last week, brings Mastercard into PayPal as a payment option across the globe — moving into regions like the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, among others — essentially enabling PayPal […].

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