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Americas Country Directory

Northern America, the Caribbean and South America — cross-border payments, instant payment systems, banking infrastructure, fintech ecosystems and regulatory developments across the 14 sovereign markets with no existing LATAM record. No Americas country has a published Country Intelligence page yet; every entry below is marked honestly as Coming Soon.

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Americas is a regional index, not a second country database

Mexico, every other Central American market, three Caribbean nations (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti) and all ten South American LATAM markets — 21 countries in total — already have a canonical record under LATAM, GPIR's established Latin American Country Intelligence domain. Americas does not duplicate that data, and never will: this directory doesn't list those countries a second time, so no country ever appears twice across GPIR. It only carries the 14 markets with no existing LATAM record — Canada, the United States, ten Anglophone/Dutch-speaking sovereign Caribbean states, Guyana and Suriname. Where a sub-region (Central America) is entirely covered by LATAM, this directory says so and links straight through rather than listing empty or duplicated rows.

Northern America

Canada and the United States — both new GPIR Americas records with no existing country intelligence page yet.

Canada

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AmericasComing Soon

Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

United States

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Payments, banking and cross-border corridor intelligence.

Central America

All eight Central American markets, including Mexico, already have a canonical record under LATAM — nothing to list here without duplicating it.

No Americas-canonical records here — Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama are covered by their canonical LATAM Country Intelligence records. Open the LATAM Country Directory →

Caribbean

Ten sovereign Caribbean states with no LATAM equivalent. Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti are canonical LATAM markets and are covered there instead.

Antigua and Barbuda

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Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

Bahamas

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AmericasComing Soon

Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

Barbados

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AmericasComing Soon

Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

Dominica

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AmericasComing Soon

Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

Grenada

EC$ XCD
AmericasComing Soon

Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

Jamaica

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AmericasComing Soon

Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

Saint Kitts and Nevis

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AmericasComing Soon

Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

Saint Lucia

EC$ XCD
AmericasComing Soon

Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

EC$ XCD
AmericasComing Soon

Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

Trinidad and Tobago

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AmericasComing Soon

Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

South America

Guyana and Suriname are the only South American markets with no existing LATAM record; the other ten South American countries are canonical LATAM markets.

Guyana

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Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

Suriname

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AmericasComing Soon

Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.

Americas Regional Intelligence

GPIR intends to build a regional Americas view covering cross-border P2P volume, diaspora and migration concentration, corridor economics (e.g. US–Mexico, US–Canada, US–Brazil, US–Dominican Republic, Spain–LATAM), the fintech ecosystem, payment infrastructure and regulatory developments across the whole hemisphere — spanning both the 14 countries above and the LATAM-canonical markets they connect to, since corridors like US–Mexico don't respect where a country's intelligence record happens to live. None of that regional-level data has been compiled or validated yet, so it is listed here as roadmap topics rather than populated with figures. Corridor significance will be driven by validated data, not hard-coded assumptions, once sourced:

Regional P2P Volume

Data Under Development

CY2025 and YTD 2026 cross-border P2P volume, aggregated only if a supportable methodology exists.

Diaspora Concentration

Data Under Development

Regional migration and diaspora heat map, sourced per country as pages are built.

Corridor Intensity

Data Under Development

Major inbound/outbound corridors across the region, ranked only once volume data is validated.

FinTech Ecosystem

Data Under Development

Regional count of payment fintechs, digital banks, MTOs and PSPs.

Payment Infrastructure

Data Under Development

Instant payment systems, domestic rails, card networks and Open Banking status across the region.

GPIR will not aggregate individual country figures into a regional total unless the underlying methodology genuinely supports it — a regional number will not be published as a shortcut once countries are researched independently.

About This Directory

This directory reflects the GPIR Americas roadmap honestly: no Americas country has a published Country Intelligence page yet, so every entry above is shown as Coming Soon. Countries are grouped by Northern America, Central America, Caribbean and South America for navigation only, following the UN M49 geographic classification — this does not imply that payment ecosystems, regulation or economic characteristics are identical within a grouping. The 21 countries that are already canonical LATAM markets (Mexico and the rest of Central America, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and all ten South American LATAM markets) are deliberately not listed here a second time — each sub-region they fully or partly cover links straight to the LATAM directory instead. Only the 14 countries with no LATAM equivalent (Canada, United States, ten sovereign Caribbean states, Guyana and Suriname) appear as Americas country tiles. As each is researched and published, it will move from Coming Soon to Active using the same reusable Country Intelligence template built for APAC, LATAM and Europe/SEPA — so Americas never needs a second, conflicting set of country pages.