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Visa Buys LATAM Processors

Private equity firm Advent International has sold two of the three processing businesses it owned in Argentina to Visa. Prisma Medios de Pago is a card issuing platform, and Newpay provides account-to-account, ATM and bill payment processing. Terms of the transaction were not announced. The deal is expected to close this quarter. Advent purchased 51% of Prisma in 2019 from Visa and Argentine bank owners for $700 million. It subsequently purchased all the remaining equity and invested in the group. Advent divided Prisma’s processing assets into three businesses. It has retained Payway, the...

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