Based in São Paulo, Brazil, StoneCo empowers merchants and integrated partners to conduct electronic commerce seamlessly across in-store, online, and mobile channels. StoneCo’s unique client-centric approach, called the Stone Model, is concentrated on delighting clients and ensuring high quality customer support, rather than simply providing a solution or service. This model combines the company’s advanced, end-to-end, cloud-based technology platform with a differentiated hyper-local and integrated distribution approach, as well as white-glove, on-demand customer service. StoneCo is also the largest independent merchant acquirer in Brazil, and became the first non-bank entity to obtain authorization from the Central Bank of Brazil to operate as a Merchant Acquirer Payments Institution.