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Issue 1217

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Newsletter
April 2022
Featured Chart

Latin America’s Global General Purpose Cards Reach 1 Billion

The general purpose brand cards issued in Latin America generated 36.09 billion transactions last year for purchases of goods and services, up 35.6% from 2020. Cards in circulation reached 1.00 billion, up 27.9%.

Featured Companies

Message from the Publisher

On page 10, we identified 67 mergers, acquisitions and corporate financing transactions that occurred in 26 countries over the last 15 months among companies that provide BNPL installment loans. BNPL is only one of the categories we cover in the payment industry every month. Turn to page 15 to find the 65 transactions in the wider payment industry that occurred in March 2022.

David Robertson, Publisher
April 18, 2022

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

CHARTS IN THIS ISSUE

Latin America’s Global General Purpose Cards Reach 1 Billion

Latin America Spending, Transactions and Cards by Brand

Market Shares of Purchase Transactions in Latin America 2001-2021

Second 50 Largest Visa/Mastercard Credit Card Issuers

BNPL Deals Since January 2021—Mergers & Acquisitions

BNPL Deals Since January 2021—Corporate Financing

Investments & Acquisitions—March 2022

FEATURED STATISTICS

BNPL Deals Since January 2021

Between January 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022 there were 67 mergers, acquisitions and corporate financing transactions involving buy now, pay later companies. All 67 deals are identified on pages 10 and 11. The five largest are listed here.

1. Afterpay, $29.00 billion
acquired by Block (formerly Square)
2. Paidy, $2.70 billion
acquired by PayPal
3. Klarna, $1.64 billion
in funding
4. Atome, $900.0 million
in funding
5. Scalapay, $545.0 million
in funding

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