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Ualá is an Argentine fintech company that provides a mobile application for managing a Mastercard prepaid debit card and other financial services. The company was founded by Pierpaolo Barbieri and investors include Point72 Ventures. [2]
It is standard for most Brazilian credit cards to have a "dual-function" (when offered by the bank) where usually the bank debit card (Mastercard Maestro, Visa Electron or Elo) also has a credit function (usually the only brand in front of the card is Mastercard, Visa or Elo). When inserting, swiping or tapping the card it presents both ...
In 1996, four million merchants sued Mastercard in federal court for making them accept debit cards if they wanted to accept credit cards and dramatically increasing credit card swipe fees. This case was settled with a multibillion-dollar payment in 2003. This was the largest antitrust award in history. [35]
Those without residential access to a PC can avail themselves of Locutorios, the computer/postal service centers ubiquitous in Argentina.. The number of Internet users in the country as of 2011 has been estimated at 27 million (two thirds of the population), [6] the number of registered domain names was approx. 1.7 million in August 2008 [7] and the number of internet hosts in 2009, 6,025,000.
The Matrícula Consular (English: Consular Registration), also known as the Argentine Consular Identification Card (Argentine CID Card; Spanish: Tarjeta de Identificación Consular Argentina, TICA), is the consular identification card issued by the Government of Argentina through its consulate offices to Argentine nationals residing outside of Argentina.
The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (Spanish: Banco Central de la República Argentina, BCRA) is the central bank of Argentina, being an autarchic entity.. Article 3 of the Organic Charter lists the objectives of this Institution: “The bank aims to promote, to the extent of its powers and within the framework of the policies established by the national government, monetary stability ...
Citibank Argentina was established in 1914 as the Buenos Aires branch of the National City Bank of New York, and the first of any United States bank in Argentina. The bank remained a secondary name in Argentine banking; but earned renown for the quality of its services: its Paylink payment processing network made it the first bank in Argentina to earn an ISO 9000 (1997), and in 2002 ...
Founded on October 14, 1886, in Buenos Aires as Banco Francés del Río de la Plata (English: French Bank of the River Plate), it is the oldest private bank in Argentina. Its Beaux-Arts headquarters, designed by Jorge Bunge, were inaugurated in 1926.