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Field reports from operators, product updates from our team, press releases, and analysis of what is changing in regional payments.

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Insights · Hospitality

The deposit you did not take is the money you will not get back

Every property owner in the region has a version of the same story. A booking for the last week of December. No deposit taken, because the platform handles it, or because the guest seemed fine, or because asking…

7 August 2026Read more →
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Press release · Brand

CX Pay introduces new brand identity after ten years of growth

New look reflects a decade of processing payments for merchants across the Caribbean and Americas. CX Pay, the payments partner for merchants across Latin America and the Caribbean, has announced a new brand. After…

1 August 2026Read more →
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Press release · Media

David Levy Maduro on the AI InterConnect Podcast

Our Managing Director David B. Levy Maduro sat down with Laurent Cochet on the AI InterConnect Podcast to talk about what building payment infrastructure in the Caribbean and Latin America actually looks like from…

28 April 2026Read more →
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Press release · People

Gerónimo Chotin joins CX Pay for the Dominican Republic

We are proud to welcome Gerónimo Chotin to the CX Pay team. The Dominican Republic is a market we are serious about. It is one of the largest economies in the Caribbean, it has a deep tourism and hospitality…

11 April 2026Read more →
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Press release · Industry

CX Pay takes the chairmanship of the Curaçao Fintech Association

CX Pay B.V. is proud to take on the chairmanship of the Curaçao Fintech Association for the 2026 to 2028 term. The association exists because a handful of local companies decided the island's financial technology…

1 April 2026Read more →
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Field notes · Visa LAC Seller Summit

3 days at the Visa LAC Seller Summit in Cartagena

3 days of sessions in Cartagena, and a fairly clear picture of where payments in Latin America and the Caribbean is heading. These are the numbers and the arguments that stayed with us. Day 1, the direction of…

11 March 2026Read more →
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Opinion · Caribbean payments

The market is not too small, it has been underserved

There is a conversation that comes round every couple of years about whether the Caribbean is a viable market for payments infrastructure. It is a conversation we know well, because we have been on the wrong end of…

23 February 2026Read more →
A payment confirmed on a phone
Press release · Milestone

10 years since our first transaction

Today marks 10 years since CX Pay processed its very first transaction. One payment, on one day, for one merchant. What started there has grown into a volume-driven payment ecosystem. As of this milestone that…

3 January 2026Read more →
A customer paying by card in a boutique
Insights · Payment methods

"Customers are asking to pay with Venmo or Zelle. What should we do?"

At the third annual Fintech Conference in Sint Maarten, organised by the Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten, a merchant put a question to the room. Customers keep asking to pay with Venmo or Zelle. What…

8 December 2025Read more →
Self-order kiosks installed at a KFC restaurant in Jamaica under an Order, Pay, Collect banner
Press release · Clients

KFC Jamaica takes self-order kiosks island wide

KFC Jamaica has begun putting self-order kiosks into its restaurants. Customers work through the full menu on a touchscreen, build the order the way they want it, pay by card at the machine…

6 December 2025Read more →
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Client story · Curaçao

Chef Helmi Smeulders wins Best Caribbean Cookbook in the World

Chef Helmi Smeulders has been awarded Best Caribbean Cookbook in the World 2025 at the Gourmand Awards, for My Curaçao, A Culinary Road Trip . Helmi was one of the first entrepreneurs, back in 2016, to trust CX Pay…

4 December 2025Read more →
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Press release · Partnerships

CX Pay teams up with ChargeAutomation so properties get paid into their own bank

CX Pay has partnered with ChargeAutomation to bring automated guest payments to properties across the Caribbean and Latin America, with one difference that matters more here than almost anywhere else. The money…

21 November 2025Read more →
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Press release · Aruba

On stage at the Exprodesk eCommerce Bootcamp in Aruba

CX Pay was proud to take the stage at Exprodesk's eCommerce Bootcamp, hosted by the Department of Economic Affairs, Commerce and Industry. It is an event we have supported through years of collaboration aimed at…

6 November 2025Read more →
A customer tapping a card at a counter terminal
Insights · Regional payments

More than 70% of Caribbean transactions are still cash

Even today, more than 70% of transactions across the Caribbean are still cash. In many islands the figure is higher. Read it as a failure and it is discouraging. Read it properly and it is the opportunity. A region…

17 August 2025Read more →
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Insights · Payments

Looking for additional revenue?

Every business seeks to bolster its revenue streams. Whether it’s through price adjustments, refining packaging, or optimizing production lines, there’s a continual quest to maximize returns. However, these efforts…

13 March 2024Read more →
The SEN wallet app shown on screen at Islandpreneur 2023 in Sint Maarten
Press release · CX PayMe

CX Pay launches the SEN e-wallet in Sint Maarten

During the Islandpreneur 2023 held on the 29th and 30th of June at the Simpson Bay Resort in Sint Maarten, Curaçao based FinTech company CX Pay launched its demo version of the SEN Payment app and website. The…

1 July 2023Read more →
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Press release · Visa & Cybersource

CX Pay partners with Cybersource, a Visa solution

MIAMI, 7 December 2021. Curaçao based CX Pay B.V. today announced that the FinTech company has selected the payment and anti-fraud platform Cybersource, a Visa solution, to broaden its service offering while…

7 December 2021Read more →

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