Visa compra parcela minoritária na empresa de pagamentos Conductor

A Visa anunciou nesta terça-feira um investimento minoritário na empresa de soluções tecnológicas para pagamentos digitais brasileira Conductor, que conta com cerca de 100 clientes, 69 milhões de contas de pagamento e está em 135 mil estabelecimentos comercial em todo o país.

Essa é a primeira aquisição da Visa no Brasil. Fundada há 20 anos, a Conductor começou as atividades com processamento de transações com cartão, mas se tornou uma plataforma tecnológica para varejistas, bancos e outras empresas, focada em emitir diferentes  tipos de cartões ou digitalizar pagamentos.

Em 2014, a Conductor recebeu um aporte do fundo de private equity Riverwood Capital. Desde então, a empresa cresceu quatro vezes. .. Leia mais em valoreconomico 23/10/2018
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Visa Makes Strategic Investment in Conductor to Accelerate Adoption of Digital Payments in Brazil

Visa (NYSE: V) today announced a strategic minority investment in Conductor, a leading digital payments processing technology platform in Brazil, to help accelerate innovation in payments and enable Conductor’s product expansion. The investment reinforces the existing partnership between Visa and Conductor, as well as the companies’ shared vision for driving adoption of digital payments across e-commerce and mobile commerce in Brazil. Backed by Riverwood Capital since 2014, Conductor has become a key technology-processing platform for retailers, banks, and other companies in Brazil looking to issue different type of cards and digitize their payments, resulting in better engagement and increased loyalty amongst consumers.

Visa and Conductor’s areas of focus and product expansion plans include developing issuer-focused solutions for tokenizing payments via mobile wallets, improving access to Visa APIs, expanding the usage of push payments with Visa Direct, and increasing acceptance of digital payments among small and medium businesses, among other initiatives. .. Leia mais em visa 23/10/2018