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Rede known as Redecard is a Brazilian multi-brand acquirer with 25 brands in its portfolio, for credit, debit and benefit cards. Its activities include merchant acquiring, capturing, transmission, processing and settlement of credit and debit card transactions, prepayment of receivables to merchants (resulting from sales made by means of credit cards), rental of POS terminals, check verification through POS terminals, and the capture and transmission of transactions using benefit-voucher, private-label cards and loyalty programs such as Multiplus. The company is the second largest in its sector, after Cielo. The company was traded in BM&F Bovespa and disclosed in 2012, 24, September. ==History== Rede history dates back to 1970, when Citibank, who is among the largest financial institutions and credit card issuers worldwide, along with Banco Itaú and Unibanco (currently Itau Unibanco), who are among the largest financial institutions and credit card issuers in Brazil, gathered to found Credicard. Credicard´s activities included those of a credit card brand, an issuer and a merchant acquirer and payment processor. By 1980, Credicard had issued 500,000 cards and affiliated 120,000 merchants. In 1987, Credicard began issuing MasterCard branded cards and, by 1994, it had issued 5 million cards. During that same year, Credicard launched the first debit card in the Brazilian market, Redeshop, which allowed merchants to receive payment for their sales on the first business day after the transaction, following the charge to the cardholder´s account by the issuer. In 1996, Citibank, Itaucard and Unibanco believed it was necessary to have a company specialized in merchant acquiring and payment processing and founded Rede as Redecard by spinning off Credicard´s merchant acquiring and payment processing activities. In that same year, MasterCard International also became a shareholder of Rede. Since then, Rede has been the main merchant acquirer and payment processor for MasterCard and Diners Club International branded credit and debit cards in Brazil. Since its formation, Rede was the leader of the Redecard Consortium. The corporate purposes of the Redecard Consortium, which was incorporated according to Brazilian Corporate Law, were the same as the ones Redecard currently pursues: affiliating merchants to accept credit and debit cards, and capturing, transmitting, processing and settling transactions carried out with MasterCard and Diners Club International credit and debit cards in Brazil. The members of the Rede Consortium included the controlling shareholders and Redecard itself. The assets held by Redecard Consortium were fully transferred to Rede. As the leader of the Redecard Consortium, Rede performed and carried out all the activities necessary for the development of the Redecard Consortium. The results of Redecard Consortium were distributed according to the share of each consortium member in its revenues and certain revenues and expenses were shared by the consortium members in the same proportion as their respective shareholdings in Redecard, in accordance with criteria defined in the consortium formation contract. The Rede Consortium ceased to exist on March 31, 2007, and after its termination, Redecard assumed all Redecard Consortium’s rights and obligations.〔("History and Corporate Profile" on Redecard's Investors Relations's website )〕 In June 2007, Rede was listed on the São Paulo Stock Exchange – BM&FBovespa, with its shares being listed on the New Market (“Novo Mercado”), a segment that is reserved for companies that are committed to differentiated practices in terms of the relationship with minority shareholders and the highest level of corporate governance that is found in the Brazilian capital markets.Upon the listing, MasterCard sold its stake in the Company. In January 2008 Citibank sold part of its stake and exited the Company entirely in March 2009. Consequently the Company underwent a shareholding restructuring. As a result of this, the Itaú Unibanco Group, which had recently been created by the merger between these two banks, became Rede's controlling shareholder. The company was deslisted in 2012 and changed its name for Rede in 2013 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rede S.A.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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