Brazil’s Ebanx launches beta digital wallet Ebanx Go
Ebanx, a cross-border payments start-up based in Latin America, has launched the beta test for its digital wallet Ebanx Go to a capped 10,000 customers, Reuters reports.
Securing unicorn status at a one billion dollar valuation last October, the Brazilian fintech started out by helping international merchants sell locally in Brazil.
The Brazilian fintech started out by helping international merchants sell locally in Brazil.
Figures released last year suggested the company’s Brazilian business accounts made up nearly 90% of its overall revenue, processing payments for Brazilian customers on the behalf of global merchants such as Spotify, Airbnb and Alibaba’s AliExpress.
But now the 2012-founded start-up is expanding its product offering in the e-commerce space. Recently extending its offering to process payments for Brazilian e-commerce platforms too, the fintech is now ready to take on the digital wallets arena which has seen huge success from big tech players in East Asia, Europe and the US.
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RecargaPay, Zuum and PagSeguro are all big digital wallet players in Brazil.
In Brazil, more than 100 local companies currently offer digital wallet accounts, having attracted roughly 50 million customers collectively so far according to Reuters.
Initially, Ebanx Go will issue a virtual card on which users can receive five percent back of the amount they spend through Ebanx’s global customer websites, such as AliExpress, Gearbest, Spotify, and Udacity, among others.
“In 18 months, I see Ebanx[‘s] wallet reaching one million clients,” says co-founder Wagner Ruiz, who suggests Ebanx could eventually offer savings accounts and potentially expand into more Latin American countries besides Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, where it already operates.
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