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LATAM Fintech PR Roundup: Banking licences, financial inclusion and SME cross-border payments are transforming the Latin American market. The latest FF News stories highlight how companies including Revolut, Mastercard, Nubank, UniBank and Visa are expanding regulated services and digital infrastructure across the region. This shift towards formalised banking structures and strategic leadership appointments reflects a maturing ecosystem. Global players are increasingly prioritising regulatory compliance and inclusive technology to capture growth in emerging economies. Revolut enters Argentina through banking acquisition: Revolut has received approval from the Central Bank of Argentina to acquire Banco Cetelem Argentina. This enables the launch of Revolut Bank Argentina S.A.U. to serve a 150,000-person waitlist. Full banking licence secured in Colombia: Revolut has secured a full banking licence from the SFC in Colombia. This allows the global fintech to launch regulated banking services and borderless financial products for 80 million customers. Visa and IFC drive financial inclusion: Visa and the IFC have launched a $200 million risk-sharing initiative to expand financial inclusion. The programme increases access to digital payments for underbanked consumers in emerging markets. Nubank appoints new Chief Legal Officer: Nubank has appointed former Circle General Counsel Sarah Wilson as Chief Legal Officer. She will lead the global legal organisation and support international AI-driven expansion starting 28 September 2026. Panamanian SMEs gain cross-border payment tools: UniBank and Mastercard launched Mi Negocio sin Frontera in Panama using Mastercard Move. This provides SMEs with faster, transparent cross-border payments to over 50 countries. #fintech #banking #latam #payments #financialinclusion

Zero Trust Security: Keeping banking safe in the age of AI AI doesn't rank vulnerabilities as high, medium or low - it finds any pathway. Suresh Ramamurthi, Chairman and Founder of NetXD, uses the unlocked second-floor bathroom window to explain why AI is a different kind of intruder for banks, and why NetXD built a natively zero trust platform for machine commerce before AI arrived. #Sibos2026 #Sibos #AgenticBanking #ZeroTrust #NetXD

EXCLUSIVE: "The New Playbook" - Red Hat in 'Discover Sibos' Red Hat experts reveal how financial institutions can bridge the gap between legacy systems and AI while maintaining security and environmental sustainability.… 📖 Read the full article in the comments 👇 Microsoft | NVIDIA #FinTech #FFNews #ThoughtLeadership #RedHat #Microsoft #Nvidia

Monica Sasso, Financial Services EMEA Chief Technologist at Red Hat, describes automation as an underutilised superpower for resilience, with the example of banks that wipe, repave and restart their servers every day so that recovery from failure is routine. #OperationalResilience #DORA #Automation #Banking #Fintech #RedHat #Horizon2030

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Request to Pay Is Live in Italy: What CBI Sees for B2B and B2G Can a payment request in your banking app change how businesses get paid? CBI's Alessio Castelli says Request to Pay launched in Italy in 2025 with a public administration scheme, and corporates now want it for treasury efficiency, reconciliation and early-payment discounts. #Sibos #Sibos2026 #CBI #RequestToPay #InstantPayments #DigitalEuro #Payments #Italy

📅 The 2026 edition of the Future Identity Festival is coming to London on 9th - 10th November at The Brewery, London! 🚀 We are pleased to welcome FF News | Fintech Finance as a media partner! FF News offers a range of advertising and promotional opportunities designed to support marketing campaigns, build brands, attract delegates to events, and reach new prospects. 🎟️ Join the FF News team this November: https://hubs.li/Q04yvJ2k0 #FID #digitalidentity #verification #fraudprevention | Alicia Condon | Alexandra Green | Anna Kochanova | Hattie Dean | Malcolm O'Reilly | Georgia Stubbs | Laura Raimondi | Ali Paterson | Chloe Walker

Cloud, APIs & Decoupling In this episode of our Plumery spotlight series, Daniele Tonella, CTO and Member of the Management Board at ING, and Cornel Dixon, Head of Growth at Plumery, discuss the move from monolith to microservices, why mindset lags architecture, and why documentation and institutional knowledge are dependency problems banks rarely price. #Microservices #APIs #Decoupling #CloudNative #Banking #Plumery

EXCLUSIVE: "A New Rail Journey" - Stuart Bailey, Lloyds Banking Group in 'The Fintech Magazine' Lloyds Banking Group joins the UK Payments Initiative to overhaul the UK's financial rails, focusing on A2A payments and tokenised commercial bank deposits.… 📖 Read the full article in the comments 👇 GoCardless | Amazon | Visa | Bank of England #FinTech #FFNews #ThoughtLeadership #LloydsBankingGroup #GoCardless #Amazon #Visa #BankofEngland