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I'm still feeling the energy from our first-ever Mexico Fintech Week.

The CDMX fintech community is unmatched – it was great to bring together 2,500+ founders, builders, and investors for 5 days that ranged from an art auction, to a comedy roast, to running clubs, to a night at the museum.

A huge shout-out to our LatAm team, especially organizers Ramon Escobar, Jox Gallardo, and Irving Balbuena.

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Reads of the Week

Profile: Meet Column, The Most Important Fintech Startup You’ve Never Heard Of

Plaid co-founder William Hockey is building a ‘durable’ unicorn at Column, his startup with $200M in revenue and a (maybe) valuation of $6B. His bigger fight: a new financial ‘Cold War’ with China.

Upstarts MediaAlex Konrad

Exits

IPOs & SPACs

• RedotPay plans for a $1 billion U.S. IPO at a $4 billion valuation, as the Hong Kong-based stablecoin firm focuses on payment solutions. 

M&A - Fintech

• Visa agreed to acquire Prisma and Newpay from Advent International, acquiring the two Argentinian payment processors.
• BillDesk, a digital payments processor, agreed to acquire Worldline's Indian payments business for $60 million.
• Araxi, a South African payment infra company, agreed to acquire a majority stake in Pay@ for approx. $62.3 million.
• Experian acquired AtData, an email address intelligence fintech, to bolster its identify and fraud capabilities.
• Veremark acquired Risk Management Intelligence, a background screening company in Singapore. 
• Verdane-controlled BidCo agreed to acquire Augmentum Fintech, a UK-listed fintech investor. 
• Plaid completed a tender offer at an $8 billion valuation, a 31% increase from $6.1 billion in April 2025, to provide employee liquidity.
• Capitolis, a U.S. capital markets fintech, agreed to acquire 20 Gates Management's U.S. secured financing platform to expand its capital marketplace.

M&A - Banks and Financial Institutions

• Citi sold an additional 24% stake in Banamex for $2.5 billion, as the transaction continues Citi's exit from its Mexican retail banking operations.
• Citizens agreed to acquire Matrix Capital Markets Group with the deal expanding Citizens' capital markets and investment banking capabilities.

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Modern Treasury has launched Payments, an integrated payment service provider (PSP) built for both fiat and stablecoins. With a developer-first API, multi-rail support (ACH, wire, RTP/FedNow, push-to-card, stablecoins), and real-time reporting powered by a single, immutable ledger, teams can go live in days—not months. Supporting companies of any size, you can start with the PSP and scale forever on the same platform trusted to process $400B+ in payments.

Discover Modern Treasury Payments

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