Latin America & Caribbean

Region

• For International card Brand in Latin America, long-term leadership of Regional Office; developing/implementing market and line-of-product growth strategies, communications, risk & fraud management, plus Operations/Technology Infrastructure of ~15 Country-Businesses.



• POS Debit program launch to several of South America's sophisticated bankcard markets. Evaluation of market potential and of business case for participating banks, processors and Scheme through Owners; also definition of policy options from pricing to positioning.



• ATM strategy development a number of banks & Networks; also, the development of m-commerce – from mobile phone 'top-ups', etc., to wider payments functionality.

Country-Markets

• Argentina -- Debit strategy development and implementation oversight for Argencard, the leading Argentinean payments processor and owner of the Linc ATM network. Subsequent business planning, Systems Acquisition, & Implementation for the POSnet acquiring business. Valuation & Due-diligence of the Argencard business prior to its Acquisition by local Venture Capital.



• Bolivia -- Card Issuing & Acquiring processing systems RFP's - Requirements Definition, Selection criteria/weighting, Management, Vendor-selection, Implementation Oversight for a Bank-owned Consortium/Network; Business strategy development, inc. competitor analysis, pricing and Operations.



• Brazil -- Debit strategy development and implementation oversight for a leading Issuer-consortium; POS-Acquiring strategy & Operations-benchmarking for another. Also, competitive analysis of Retail- and Gas-card markets.



• Chile -- Acquiring strategic options analysis for a top-tier bank; Debit strategy development and implementation for another.



• Colombia -- Strategy development, and processing systems procurement for Servibanca – one of four original Colombian switches, POS-Debit Acquiring strategy development and implementation for another bank-owned consortium; and subsequent merger valuation and negotiation to form a single national Network.



• Costa Rica – Acquisition due-diligence & valuation of a Regional Bank-card Processor.



• Mexico -- Acquisition, Development of Credit Bureau services; Debit strategy development and implementation oversight for a top-tier Bank; Analysis of the Remittance-market (sizing, growth, pricing), and launch of a new start-up business (US>>Latin America) based on pre-paid-Card.



• Panama -- Establishing a (once)bank-owned entity as the 'Outsource' Card-Processor



• Peru -- Card Issuing & Acquiring processing systems RFP's - Requirements Definition, Selection criteria/weighting, Management, Vendor-selection, Implementation Oversight for a domestic Processor.



• Venezuela -- Business Requirements, Promotion, & Launch of 'National' Credit Bureau.

CSI's Regional Consultants are located in the USA (FL, CA), and in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia.