We've expanded our payments infrastructure with a global issuing solution that enables businesses to launch card programs in more than 150 countries through a single integration, without requiring a physical presence or local operations in each market.
With this new capability, we're expanding our platform and becoming the only infrastructure provider that combines local issuing in Latin America with global issuing under a single platform, marking an unprecedented milestone in the payments industry.
Latin America runs on multiple payment rails: cards, bank transfers, and now stablecoins. It's a multi-rail ecosystem in a complex region shaped by regulatory differences across markets. The opportunity isn't about choosing a single rail, but about combining them intelligently. At Pomelo, we've built the most modern payments infrastructure in Latin America, enabling innovative use cases that comply with each country's regulations through a single integration. Our local and global cards are a clear example of this: businesses can operate in local currency, U.S. dollars, or stablecoins depending on what makes the most sense for each use case.
Global issuing with a single partner: what's new at Pomelo
Over the past few years, we've built local issuing, processing, and card program management capabilities across multiple Latin American markets.
Now, we're adding a global issuing model that expands what's possible for our customers while addressing the biggest challenges of international expansion:
Establishing local legal entities.
Obtaining regulatory licenses.
Integrating with local providers.
Building operations market by market.
By partnering with Pomelo through a single technology integration, card issuers can now implement local, global, or hybrid issuing strategies at every stage of their growth, without requiring a physical presence, regulatory licenses, or local operations in every market.
This enables businesses to validate demand and commercial traction before making long-term local investments while operating globally with greater operational efficiency.
Our solution also includes:
Virtual Mastercard and Visa card issuance.
Apple Pay and Google Pay compatibility.
Global production and distribution of physical cards.
Real-time settlement in USD or stablecoins, among other capabilities.
Historically, expanding a card program meant building infrastructure, operations, and financial relationships in every new market. Our global card simplifies that process, enabling customers to reach multiple countries from a centralized operating model with greater speed and less complexity.
Our global card solution is already live, serving customers across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, including Western Union, BBVA, Santander, Coppel, Kavak, Didi, Binance, ARQ, Astropay, and PayJoy, among others.
International traction: our complementary solutions
In addition to our local and global issuing products, we offer complementary solutions including:
"The level of interest we're seeing from companies around the world confirms that the need for global issuing infrastructure extends beyond geographies, industries, and business models. More and more organizations are looking to expand faster with less complexity, and our global card was built to support that shift.
Global card issuance represents much more than another addition to our product portfolio.
It marks a milestone for the payments industry by removing barriers to international expansion and simplifying the way banks, fintechs, and enterprises launch card programs around the world.
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