Who owns Mercado Pago?
Mercado Pago 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 Pago
Mercado Pago began as the way to pay safely for things bought on Mercado Libre and processes every transaction on the marketplace in the countries where it operates. It has since become a bank in all but name for people the banks overlooked, offering merchant payment acceptance, lending in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Chile, and an asset management account that pays a better return on idle balances than a traditional current account. It leads fintech companies by monthly active users in Argentina, Chile and Mexico and is second in Brazil, and it issues Meli Dólar, a dollar-pegged stablecoin launched in Brazil, Mexico and Chile in 2024 and 2025.
What MercadoLibre's annual report says about Mercado Pago
Sentences about Mercado Pago from MercadoLibre's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Mercado Pago was initially designed to facilitate transactions on Mercado Libre's Marketplace by providing a mechanism that allowed our users to securely, easily and promptly send and receive payments.
In the countries in which Mercado Pago operates, it processes and settles all transactions on our Marketplace.
Beyond facilitating Marketplace transactions, over the years we have expanded our array of Mercado Pago services to third parties outside Mercado Libre's Marketplace.
How often MercadoLibre names Mercado Pago in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Mercado Pago
- Current owner MercadoLibre [1] verified
Where Mercado Pago 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 Crédito
- Mercado Envíos (2013)
- Mercado Libre (1999)
- Mercado Libre Classifieds
- 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 Pago 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 Pago among them.
- Despegar — Despegar 🇻🇬
- 9 de Oro — Molino Cañuelas 🇦🇷
- ARQ — Grupo Clarín 🇦🇷
- Aerolíneas Argentinas — Aerolíneas Argentinas 🇦🇷
- Aeropuertos Argentina — Corporación América Airports 🇱🇺
- Andes Líneas Aéreas — Andes 🇦🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Mercado Pago?
The parent company of Mercado Pago is MercadoLibre, a publicly listed company headquartered in Uruguay.
Is Mercado Pago Argentine or Uruguayan?
Mercado Pago originated in Argentina, but it is owned today by MercadoLibre, which is headquartered in Uruguay. So Mercado Pago is an Argentine-origin brand under Uruguayan ownership.
Is Mercado Pago still owned by MercadoLibre?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Mercado Pago 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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