Akua

Akua builds a cloud-native, API-first acquiring-as-a-service payments platform for banks, fintechs, payment gateways and aggregators across Latin America. The company provides modular payments infrastructure including authentication, fraud prevention, chargeback automation, AI-driven routing, real-time reporting and dashboards, cashouts and scheduled payouts. Akua emphasizes high scalability and reliability with multi-datacenter architecture (99.999% uptime), support for high throughput (10M+ transactions/day and >1,000M requests daily) and tools to integrate multiple payment methods from a single integration to optimize approvals and reduce operational friction for merchants and partners.