A vertical fuel-retail acquiring program, operated under your sponsorship.
Wallet Partners LLC is seeking a sponsoring bank, a Visa and Mastercard member in the Dominican Republic, to launch a payment-facilitation program dedicated to gasoline stations, clearing in US dollars. This page is the summary; the full presentation is shared under NDA.
The segment publicly asked for a different pricing model.
In June and July 2026 the national fuel-retailers association threatened to pull card terminals from more than 780 stations over percentage fees that consume a quarter to a third of a State-regulated margin. The Government opened a dialogue with the banks. A program priced 25 basis points below each station's current contract, with no monthly minimum, dollar clearing, transparent interchange and bank-grade controls gives a sponsoring bank a defensible route into a high-volume segment while the incumbents negotiate.
What the bank does
Network membership and BINs, approval of each merchant, program settlement account with reserves, second-line oversight and regulatory reporting.
What Bombero Partners does
Prospecting and onboarding, KYB/KYC files prepared to the bank's standard, terminals and field support, first-line monitoring, disputes, merchant settlement and reporting to the bank.
Compliance framework
PCI DSS with P2PE terminals, Law 155-17 (AML/CFT), Law 172-13 (data protection), Visa and Mastercard payment-facilitator rules, MCC 5541/5542. Full framework.
A sponsorship agreement, then one merchant file at a time.
- Visa and Mastercard acquiring membership in the DR, or a correspondent arrangement that permits program sponsorship.
- Registration of Bombero Partners as payment facilitator / program manager.
- A program settlement account with agreed reserve and release terms.
- Merchant approval within ten business days per file.
- A named relationship contact and a compliance contact.
The sponsor-bank deck covers
- Executive summary and the 2026 fee-dispute timeline
- Banco Central payment-system data and fuel-market structure
- Map and list of the 20 launch-zone stations
- Program design, responsibility matrix and rollout plan
- Volume and revenue scenario model
- Compliance framework and available document set