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Updated · FinTech Global · Aug 18
dLocal Joins UATP One, Expanding Travel Payments Across 60+ Emerging Markets
Updated
Updated · FinTech Global · Aug 18

dLocal Joins UATP One, Expanding Travel Payments Across 60+ Emerging Markets

3 articles · Updated · FinTech Global · Aug 18

Summary

  • dLocal was confirmed as UATP One’s newest payment-processing partner, giving airlines and travel merchants another acquiring option across more than 60 countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
  • The tie-up is aimed at lowering cost and complexity while improving conversion and booking volumes in markets where local payment methods and local processing matter most.
  • dLocal brings access to more than 1,000 local payment methods, while UATP gains added local processing capacity and dLocal gains a route into UATP’s global airline and corporate travel network.
  • Those regions also align with the fastest-growing air-travel demand: Boeing projects annual passenger traffic growth of 7% in South and Southeast Asia, 6% in Africa and more than 4% in Latin America through 2044.

Insights

As airlines shift to real-time decisioning, will this partnership make traditional international credit card bookings obsolete in emerging markets?
Will standardizing 1,000 local payment methods across 60 countries expose global airlines to unprecedented localized fraud risks?
Can a single API truly eliminate the massive cross-border compliance headaches that have historically plagued international travel merchants?