Virtual Wallets without Official Dollar: Questions and Answers to Understand Changes in the Purchase and Sale of Currency
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In the midst of the currency crisis, virtual wallets – such as Cocos Capital or Mercado Pago – interrupted the offer to buy and sell the official dollar.
Ariel Sbdar was the first to talk about the brake on the retail dollar operation that the government regulated on Tuesday; follow the option to buy MEP
The measure was known this afternoon. “There were no regulatory changes,” they said at the Central Bank. Today, the currency closed to $1,400 at the Banco Nación
Since this Tuesday, September 30, you can no longer buy or sell official dollar in virtual wallets, something that many users have been using for about two months. The main harmed ones are Cocos, by Ariel Sbdar, and Mercado Pago, by Marcos Galperin, because they are the most used in the market. “Just to clarify that while at the request of our official dollar provider we temporarily paused such operation, we continue to operate dollar MEP normal…


On an afternoon of high exchange rate tension, the country's two main virtual wallets, Mercado Pago and Cocos Capital, abruptly suspended the sale of official dollar to its users, generating a strong tambronazo in the market. The measure unleashed a crossover of versions between the companies, which spoke of a "order" from their supplier, and the Central Bank, which denied changes in the rules and pointed to a "misinterpretation" of the regulati…
In the midst of a growing currency tension, with the dollar rising again, the decision of some virtual wallets to stop operating official dollar generated noise in the market. On the one hand, Cocos Capital announced that it had to suspend the sale of official dollar this Tuesday, while on social networks they also pointed out that the platform Mercado Pago stopped the sale of official dollar, something that users themselves could corroborate. L…
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