Fintech First: How Mexican Payment Startups Are Quietly Powering Global Transactions
Mexico’s payments boom isn’t a rosy financial-inclusion story; it’s a stress lab for money. Underbanked users, unreliable connectivity, and a $60B remittance firehose are forcing founders to build rails that don’t break. This forensic teardown traces how a handful of Mexican payment startups turned local survival hacks into exportable infrastructure for the rest of the world—and what uncomfortable truths that exposes about global finance.
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