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dLocal

dLocal

Your one-stop shop for payments in emerging markets.

$41B
total payment volume (2025)
$1B+
annual revenue (2025)
900+
local payment methods
In partnership with Expand in Africa
Deepening local coverage across Francophone West Africa

Expand in Africa supports dLocal's growth in the UEMOA region — opening doors with local financial institutions and partners, and navigating the BCEAO regulatory landscape so local payment coverage deepens market by market.

Introductions to local financial institutions and partners
Regulatory path scoped for the UEMOA / BCEAO environment
Ongoing cadence and shared workspace for visibility
Founded
2016 · Uruguay
Listed
NASDAQ: DLO (since 2021)
Model
One API · payins & payouts
Reach
40+ markets · 900+ payment methods
About

dLocal is the payment infrastructure for emerging markets. Through a single API, it lets the world's largest merchants collect and disburse payments across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America — connecting them to billions of consumers via the local payment methods they actually use.

What they solve

Global companies struggle to accept and send money in emerging markets, where hundreds of local cards, wallets, bank transfers and cash networks fragment every transaction. dLocal unifies them behind one integration — handling processing, FX, tax and settlement — so merchants localise payments without building a local entity in every market.

How it works

One API connects global merchants to the local payment reality of each market.

Global merchants

The world's biggest innovators plug in once to reach emerging-market consumers.

Local payment rails

900+ payment methods — cards, wallets, bank transfers and cash — across 40+ markets.

dLocal

Smart routing, FX, tax handling, settlement and fraud defence — payins and payouts through a single integration.

Products & services
Payins

Accept local payments in 40+ markets through one integration and multiple routing options.

Payouts

Send funds to sellers, beneficiaries and partners via local rails, made easy.

Defense Suite

Standalone solutions that protect businesses from fraud and fines.

Direct Issuing

Issue virtual and physical prepaid cards.

Marketplace

Process payments across many sub-merchant accounts easily.

Industries
Payments infrastructureCross-borderFintechEmerging markets
Footprint
Live in
AfricaLatin AmericaAsiaMiddle East
Expanding into
Francophone West Africa (UEMOA)
Milestones
2016
Founded to solve payments in emerging markets from a single connection.
2021
IPO on NASDAQ (DLO) — first Uruguayan tech company to list on the exchange.
2025
Record $41B total payment volume (+60% YoY); annual revenue crosses $1B for the first time.
Want to reach or partner with dLocal?
Expand in Africa opens the right doors across Francophone West Africa — tell us who you want to reach and we make the introduction.
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