PagBank PagSeguro clarifies questions related to BCB public hearing about cap on debit and prepaid card transaction fees
São Paulo, October 15, 2021 - PagSeguro Digital Ltd., or PagBank PagSeguro (NYSE: PAGS), wishes to clarify that after considering the various moving parts and analyzing internal data, PAGS has run several hypothetical scenarios taking into account all of the available information about the Brazilian Central Bank (BCB) public hearing 89/2021 on capping debit and prepaid card transaction interchange fees, and the conclusion at this time is: Regardless of the outcome of the public hearing, the impacts on PAGS Net Revenues1 and Net Income in 2022 are expected to be negligible.From 2023 onwards, the anticipated impact tends to be slightly positive for PAGS because of expected costs savings in interchange in the acquiring business.
The fact that PAGS has complementary payments businesses (acquiring and cards issuance) creates a natural hedge for the company. In case there is a negative impact in the card issuance in each period (i.e., decrease of interchange revenues from PagBank prepaid cards and/or shorter settlement period), PAGS immediately benefits from a positive impact on the acquiring business (i.e., decrease in interchange cost from all prepaid cards in the market that make transactions in PAGS acquiring business and/or shorter settlement of prepaid card receivables).
PagBank PagSeguro remains committed to improving financial inclusion and disrupting the banking industry, and we will continue to support our clients through the introduction of new and innovative products in the future.

1Net Revenues excludes Interchange and Card Scheme Fees (ITC).

About PagBank PagSeguro
PagBank PagSeguro is a disruptive provider of financial technology solutions focused primarily on consumers, individual entrepreneurs, micro-merchants, small companies, and medium-sized companies in Brazil. Among its peers, PagBank PagSeguro is the only financial technology provider in Brazil whose business model covers all the following five pillars:
•Multiple digital banking solutions
•In-person payments via point of sale (POS) devices that PagSeguro Digital provides to merchants
•Free digital accounts that PagSeguro Digital provides to its consumers and merchants with functionalities such as bill payments, top up prepaid mobile phone credit, wire transfers, peer to peer cash transfers, prepaid credit cards, cash cards, loans, investments, QR code payments, and payroll portability, among other digital banking services
•Issuer of prepaid, cash and credit cards
•Operate as a full acquirer
PagBank PagSeguro is an UOL Group Company that provides an easy, safe and hassle-free way of owning a free PagBank digital account, which is similar to a regular checking account linked to the Brazilian Central Bank's platform, with the feature of accepting payments, where its clients can transact and manage their cash, without the need to open a regular bank account. PagBank PagSeguro's end-to-end digital banking ecosystem enables its customers to accept a wide range of online and in-person payment methods, including credit cards, debit cards, meal voucher cards, boletos, bank transfers, bank debits and cash deposits.
PagBank PagSeguro's mission is to disrupt and democratize financial services in Brazil, a concentrated, underpenetrated and high interest rate market, by providing an end-to-end digital banking ecosystem that is safe, affordable, simple and mobile-first for both merchants and consumers.
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