PagBank
financial services and digital payments company
PagBank is a financial services and digital payments company based in São Paulo, Brazil and incorporated
in the Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Founded in 2006, the company primarily offers payment processing software for e-commerce websites, mobile applications, point of sale terminals, and payment terminals. It has been traded as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange since January 2018 with the ticker symbol PAGS.
PagBank is part of Universo Online (UOL group), which, according to Ibope Nielsen Online, is Brazil's largest Internet portal, with more than 50 million unique visitors and 6.7 billion page views every month. In 2024, PagBank received the AAA highest level from Moody's Ratings.
History
In 2006, UOL formed the PagSeguro to be the company's financial services platform. In January of the following year, UOL acquired BrPay, a Brazilian electronic payment company that was incorporated into PagSeguro 6 months later.
In November 2008, the company was elected the best website of the year in the Electronic Commerce category by Info Exame readers.
Also in 2008, it received the INFO Award, held by Editora Abril, in the same category: Electronic Commerce.
By 2010, the company had more than 12 million registered users. In 2012, it partnered with Horus, an electronic payment means fraud prevention company.
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