The Administrative Council for Financial Protection (CADE) and the Central Financial institution of Brazil (BCB) have formally permitted PayRetailers, the funds processor in Latin America and Africa, to amass Transfeera, a fintech targeted on fee options for companies.
As PayRetailers appears to be like to develop its presence in Brazil, it hopes the acquisition of Transfeera will allow it to achieve direct entry to Pix, the real-time fee system in Brazil. It says this may strengthen the corporate’s regulatory and threat administration construction in Brazil, and develop its alternatives in open banking.
Transfeera affords platform and expertise options for fee processing and financial institution knowledge validation and has already secured over R$10million in funding. The Santa Catarina-based fintech, which was based in 2017 and has been a regulated fee establishment since 2023, brings over 500 new shoppers to Payretailers.
With operations in additional than 20 nations throughout Latin America and Africa, PayRetailers goals to supply its providers to Brazilian corporations in 2025.
Juan Pablo Jutgla, founder and CEO of PayRetailers, mentioned: “Transfeera stands out as a technological and progressive powerhouse in Brazil, aligned with the perfect practices in threat administration and safety, being an entity supervised by the Central Financial institution of Brazil.”
Enlargement into new markets
The information comes shortly after PayRetailers was granted a fee establishment license from the BCB in April earlier this yr.
“This acquisition offers us with entry to a variety of fee strategies throughout Latin America and Africa by a single API, in over 20 nations and 250 fee strategies,” defined Fernando Nunes, co-founder and CEO of Transfeera. “This positions us much more strongly to boost our aggressive benefits available in the market. Collectively, we purpose to speed up our journey of technological innovation, providing progressive, safe, and environment friendly options to fulfill market calls for.
“We’re excited concerning the alternatives this acquisition brings and assured that Transfeera will grow to be much more strong and aggressive. Safety, which has all the time been a basic pillar for Transfeera, now extends to new markets, equivalent to sports activities betting. Our purpose is to supply the identical safety and high quality we’ve all the time offered to our companions and shoppers in these new sectors as effectively.”