When you tap your card at a coffee shop or pay a bill online, you rarely think about the backend systems verifying and processing that transaction. But behind the scenes, a Vancouver-based company is making sure it all happens smoothly—now, across more of Central America, too.
Inetco, a global leader in real-time transaction monitoring and fraud prevention, is playing a critical role in the expansion across the region of Serfinsa, a fintech firm. The El Salvador-based payment services provider just announced a new technology alliance with INETCO as it scales operations beyond its home country and into Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
For INETCO, the partnership underscores a growing presence in Latin America—and the value of smart infrastructure at the heart of the global payments race.
“Real-time intelligence is the new currency of competitive payments,” said Bijan Sanii, CEO of Inetco. “As Serfinsa scales its acquiring services across Central America, INETCO Insight gives them the operational edge to stay ahead.”
From Vancouver to San Salvador: powering payments at scale
INETCO’s flagship platform, INETCO Insight, gives payment processors and financial institutions visibility into every transaction across POS, e-commerce, and ATM channels—without slowing down performance. It monitors for bottlenecks and failures in real time, decodes ISO 8583 messages for complete transparency, and arms providers with the business intelligence they need to stay ahead in competitive markets.
For Serfinsa, which now supports 90% of El Salvador’s acquiring banks and has grown its customer portfolio fivefold in recent years, that kind of visibility is critical.
“Without sacrificing the speed of our processing, we gain the end-to-end visibility needed for proactive performance management,” said Serfinsa CEO Leandro Guini. “We’re especially excited to offer our acquiring customers real-time analytics and insights that will help them to better understand their business and thrive.”
A Vancouver-grown player in global fintech infrastructure
INETCO may not be a household name, but it’s quietly become one of the most trusted back-end technology providers for financial institutions around the world, monitoring more than 60 billion transactions annually. The company's ability to decode transaction-level detail in real time has made it a competitive differentiator—especially in regions like Latin America, where fintech innovation is accelerating and infrastructure reliability is a high-stakes concern.
As payment rails evolve, the expectations of both consumers and merchants are rising. For emerging markets, ensuring that every payment just works isn’t just a convenience—it’s a foundation for economic growth.
With partnerships like this one, INETCO is helping to lay that foundation, one transaction at a time.