Ant International Gets Brazil Licence for Local, Cross-Border Payments
What's happening
Ant International has been granted a Payment Institution (PI) licence by the Central Bank of Brazil. The licence is intended to strengthen Ant International's local and cross-border payment capabilities in Brazil and expand the company's abilities there. Ant already operates in Brazil through Antom, its merchant payment and digitalisation platform, which enables businesses to accept Pix, credit cards and other payment methods and provides embedded credit, treasury services, financial AI and blockchain solutions.
Why it's trending
Regulatory approval comes as Brazil's Pix and global instant-payment discussions (including the ECB and TIPS) increase focus on cross-border rails and local payment access.
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If you run payments for a Brazilian merchant, Ant International's new PI licence just widened your options for accepting Pix, cards and cross-border flows through Antom today, and for getting embedded credit and treasury services tied to those payments tomorrow.
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- ECB explores link between Tips and Brazil's Pix
The European Central Bank is looking into the possibility of interlinking the Eurosystem’s Target Instant Payment Settlement (Tips) with Brazil's Pix system.
FinextraSep 4 - ECB Explores Instant Payment Link With Brazil’s Pix
The European Central Bank (ECB) is exploring a potential interlinking between its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) platform and the Central Bank of Brazil’s Pix platform, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 3). The ECB said this in response to Reuters’ inquiry about a claim by unnamed sources that the two central banks are considering linking their instant payment systems, according to [̷
PYMNTSSep 4 - Brazil’s Pix Explores Expansion to Europe
Brazil’s Pix is considering expanding into Europe, with Brazil’s central bank and the European Central Bank discussing a potential connection between Pix and the ECB’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) network. The ECB confirmed the discussions to Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, saying the two platforms have already begun exploratory work on linking them. […] The post Brazil’s
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