I’ve been talking to clients and prospects for almost four years, trying to explain why installments in Brazil and other Latin American markets are so important. But today, as I was watching this YouTube video, something just clicked; and it came to me that this might be it, this might be how I will explain why it’s so important. The...

In my previous post, I explained how Pix (soon to be released) could affect boletos in Brazil; however, I had not published any preliminary information on what it is nor how it will work. This is the reason I am here; to make amendments and add a little more context to the whole “Has potential to end boleto transactions”...

There are a few factors you need to know before enabling sales on your website for the Brazilian market and starting to do cross-border transactions (when the payee and transaction recipient are in separate countries) through international acquiring. Today I will discuss three of them from a customer standpoint. Banks use the “tourism dollar (dólar turismo)” rate to convert purchases...

PIX could end one of the main pains of e-commerce in Brazil – boleto transactions. Nearly 50% of all boleto transactions do not convert into sales. It happens because the customer issues a boleto but does not pay it, and since there is a fixed cost per issued boleto, unpaid boletos can get costly. For e-tailers, it creates a bigger...

When a merchant that gross in online sales 4.5 billion USD per year, globally, do not understand the importance of having local payments in LATAM, I feel I’m doing my job wrong. This week I changed the settings in the tool I use for prospecting and it paid off. In acquiring I call a “gold nugget” a lead that...

Viajar a trabalho é uma parte essencial da minha vida, o que me levou a comparar os cartões de crédito e suas vantagens específicas para quem está sempre na estrada. O MasterBlack e o Visa Infinite são dois dos cartões mais desejados no Brasil, prometendo uma infinidade de vantagens em seus sites. No entanto, na prática, eles nem sempre entregam...