dLocal and XanderPay partner to simplify and modernize cross-border hotel payments across Africa, Asia, and Latin America

A strategic alliance delivering seamless cross-border payouts, empowering hotels and OTAs to cut costs, speed up transactions, and unlock new growth across emerging markets.

Joaquin Moreno, VP of Sales Americas at dLocal. 

dLocal, the leading cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, has announced an expanded partnership with XanderPay, the fintech innovator specializing in efficient payments for hotels, to deliver guest-centric, cross-border payout experiences and help hospitality businesses scale with confidence worldwide.

The hospitality industry’s payment infrastructure is at a turning point. As hotels and online travel agencies (OTAs) expand across borders, long-standing inefficiencies in the way payments move between businesses are creating significant challenges for growth.

According to McKinsey, cross-border B2B payments often take 3 to 5 days to settle and carry fees of 3–7% of the transaction value. For global hotel groups managing hundreds of vendors across multiple markets, these delays and costs quickly multiply, eroding margins, straining vendor relationships, and limiting operational agility.

dLocal and XanderPay’s partnership directly addresses these challenges by offering an integrated payment processing and payout solution specifically optimized for hotels and OTAs across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This collaboration spans 13 key emerging markets, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Mexico, Morocco, Panama, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Uruguay.

By combining dLocal’s global payment infrastructure with XanderPay’s hospitality expertise, hotels and OTAs can centralize and simplify bank transfer payouts. This alliance eliminates the need for local entities or complicated banking arrangements, cutting transaction costs while ensuring fast, transparent payments to vendors and partners. 

The integrated solution simplifies hotel operations, reduces transaction costs, and delivers fast, transparent payments to vendors and partners, ultimately boosting operational efficiency and unlocking new growth opportunities across emerging markets.

“Cross-border payments have long slowed down the hospitality industry — we’re changing that,” said Mike Carlo, CEO at XanderPay. “By working with dLocal to make payouts faster, more affordable, and more secure, we’re giving hotels and OTAs the technology and financial infrastructure they need to confidently expand across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.”

“Our expanded partnership with XanderPay reflects the trust that hospitality leaders place in our ability to tackle payment challenges in emerging markets,” said Joaquin Moreno, VP of Sales Americas at dLocal. “By simplifying payment flows and ensuring secure, regulated transactions, we enable hotels and OTAs to reduce costs, accelerate payouts, and boost operational efficiency—unlocking new growth opportunities across regions.”

As the demand for scalable, guest-centric payment strategies grows, eliminating cross-border inefficiencies has become a top priority for industry leaders. With solutions that allow major hotel chains and OTAs to seamlessly send funds to local vendors, the industry can finally reduce transaction times and costs while delivering a faster, more transparent payment experience for partners worldwide.