Credit Card Giant, Visa, Acquires Brazilian Payments Startup, Pismo, for $1 billion

Visa said that by acquiring Pismo, it “will be positioned to provide core banking and issuer processing capabilities across debit, prepaid, credit and commercial cards for clients via cloud native APIs.”

“Through the acquisition of Pismo, Visa can better serve our financial institution and fintech clients with more differentiated issuer solutions they can offer their customers,” said Jack Forestell, Visa’s chief product and strategy officer,

The startup’s Series B financing was co-led by Silicon Valley venture capital company Accel, e-commerce behemoth Amazon, and SoftBank. 

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