Who owns Mercado Crédito?
Mercado Crédito is owned by MercadoLibre (Uruguay, NASDAQ: MELI).[1]
Evidence: MercadoLibre, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-25, SEC EDGAR, 25 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- MercadoLibre, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇾 Uruguay, Montevideo
- Origin
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Payments
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: MELI
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Mercado Crédito
Mercado Crédito is the lending arm of the group's fintech business, extending working capital to merchants and consumer credit to buyers who are already part of the platform and who, as the company puts it, have historically been underserved or overlooked by financial institutions. In Brazil the lending runs through Mercado Crédito Sociedade de Crédito, Financiamento e Investimento S.A., a financial institution authorised by the central bank since 2020. The group's loans are offered in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Chile.
Ownership timeline of Mercado Crédito
- Current owner MercadoLibre [1] verified
Where Mercado Crédito sits in MercadoLibre
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by MercadoLibre
MercadoLibre controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- Mercado Envíos (2013)
- Mercado Libre (1999)
- Mercado Libre Classifieds
- Mercado Pago
- Mercado Play (2023)
- Mercado Shops (2010)
Other brands in payments, and who owns them
The 38 brands in payments on Brandtree belong to 21 owners. The largest is PayPal, with 4; MercadoLibre has 2.
About the owner: MercadoLibre
MercadoLibre is a publicly listed company headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, founded in 1999. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: MELI.
MercadoLibre is the largest online commerce and fintech ecosystem in Latin America and the leader in the region by marketplace gross merchandise value. It was incorporated in Delaware on 15 October 1999 and its principal executive offices are in the World Trade Center Free Zone in Montevideo, Uruguay, though most of its people are elsewhere: of 123,670 employees at the end of 2025, 61,139 were in Brazil, 34,336 in Mexico, 16,726 in Argentina and 1,858 in Uruguay. Its marketplace operates in 18 countries and its Mercado Pago fintech platform in eight.
MercadoLibre: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇦🇷 Mercado Crédito and other Argentine brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 117 brands that began in Argentina. 30 of them (26%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Mercado Crédito among them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Mercado Crédito?
The parent company of Mercado Crédito is MercadoLibre, a publicly listed company headquartered in Uruguay.
Is Mercado Crédito Argentine or Uruguayan?
Mercado Crédito originated in Argentina, but it is owned today by MercadoLibre, which is headquartered in Uruguay. So Mercado Crédito is an Argentine-origin brand under Uruguayan ownership.
Is Mercado Crédito still owned by MercadoLibre?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Mercado Crédito is still owned by MercadoLibre. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] MercadoLibre, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-25 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 25 February 2026; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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