PayPa: Deepens LATAM Reach With Argentinian eCommerce company MercadoLibre partnership
- PayPal is turning to Latin America to strengthen its position in the eCommerce payments and remittance arenas
- The expansion of its partnership with MercadoLibre, as it positions itself to capture more of Latin America’s market share
- PayPal revealed that Brazil- and Mexico-based users of Mercado Pago, will now be able to use PayPal for online checkout
- PayPal will also offer Mercado Pago as a payment method at merchants accepting PayPal
- PayPal’s 300m existing users will now have the opportunity to shop and also make payments at hundreds of thousands of new merchants
- PayPal is also expanding Xoom to power remittances paid into Mercado Pago wallets