Global66 unifies card operations with Pomelo in Chile and Colombia

Global66 has migrated and unified its Mastercard card operation with Pomelo, building on a partnership that started in Colombia in 2023 and now extends through Chile. For PSPs and high-risk issuers, the useful part is not the branding exercise — it is the move from fragmented card setups to one stack, with lower operational friction, better visibility into transactions, and fewer moving parts to coordinate.

1. In Chile, Global66’s Smart Card powered by Pomelo processed more than USD 55 million in purchases during 2025, while doubling usage versus the previous year. The card also posted the lowest insufficient-funds decline rate in the country’s prepaid industry, which points to recurring use rather than one-off swipes.
2. In Colombia, Global66 ended the year with more than 350,000 registered and approved customers, and more than half of them had an active card. That matters because registration numbers are nice for slides; active cards are what tell you whether the product is actually being used.
3. Global66 also launched tokenization in Colombia, opening access to Apple Pay and Google Pay. In practice, that extends the card into the payment rails customers are increasingly used to using on mobile devices.
4. According to Brigham Dillems, Head of Payment at Global66, the biggest impact so far has been transactional: more data on each operation, better logic to reduce decline rates and manage fraud, and a simpler day-to-day setup for the team because there are fewer providers to coordinate and more visibility into what is happening.
5. Before the migration, Global66’s Chile card operation was spread across different providers, which added complexity for new launches and for improving user experience. The move to Pomelo was meant to consolidate issuance and processing into one infrastructure with better costs, better customer experience, and more control over security, backed by the company’s earlier integration experience in Colombia.

Global66 says it now operates in eight Latin American markets. For a cross-border fintech, that kind of footprint makes card infrastructure decisions less about vanity and more about whether a provider can keep up when the business wants to launch, migrate, or tighten fraud controls without turning the customer into the test environment.