Hola amig@s fintech,
February starts, and with it the carnival season across Latin America. One of its early milestones is La Fiesta de la Candelaria, celebrated on February 2 in parts of Peru and Mexico. This week's image comes from Puno, Peru, where costumes embody cultural identity and the blend of Andean cosmology and Christianity.
As the region moves into this season of color and celebration, fintech continues to shift toward execution and scale. This week’s edition looks at how infrastructure, regulation, and institutional readiness are shaping the next phase of growth across payments, banking, and financial services.
🩵Enjoy it! We’ll see you back here next week.
~Vivi
Feedback? Reach out to us anytime! This week it’s Elena on read, post, and podcast of the week, funding, exists, other news and deeper reads, Carlos on policy, and product launches and partnerships, and Vivi on editing.
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🗓️ Events
Mexico Fintech Week 2026
Fintech’s Best Kept Secrets 🤫
In Ancient Greece, the Eleusinian Mysteries were sacred truths reserved only for the initiated. They were guarded by Harpocrates, the deity of silence. If you weren’t in the room, you remained in the dark.This February, we’re bringing that same "inner circle" energy to Mexico Fintech Week 2026.
The Real Deal: In Fintech, the most valuable insights aren't found in press releases. They’re shared in closed-door meetings, over drinks, or in late-night strategy sessions. That is the spirit of our events: less corporate fluff, more "real talk" about the scars earned while scaling in LATAM.
Why join? Because we’re done with surface-level panels. We’re here for the GOAT (Greatest Of All Talks).
Where the truth happens:
Mon, Feb 23 – Mexico Expansion Series @ Stripe HQ: The unfiltered reality of scaling into Mexico (scars included).
Tue, Feb 24 – VC & Fintech Meetup @ TWIF House: The invite-only room where capital and builders speak the same language.
Plus a curated agenda that only registered attendees will access in full. Gain the edge of being where the real conversations happen before the doors close.
Don’t stay outside the room. Come for the answers that aren't being shared anywhere else and discover what’s truly happening behind the scenes of the ecosystem. Consider this your invitation to leave the darkness behind.
