This Week in Fintech
This Week in Fintech
This Week In Fintech
How Pomelo Is Rebuilding Fintech Infrastructure in LATAM
33 minutes Posted Jun 10, 2026 at 5:00 am.
Intro
Google Years And Early Lessons
Startup Failures That Build Resilience
Neobanks Reveal The Infrastructure Gap
What Pomelo Builds And For Whom
Multi-rail Payments And Stablecoins
Agentic Payments And Fraud Controls
Why Emerging Markets Lead Payments
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Host Sasha Pilch sits down with Gaston Irigoyen, co-founder and CEO of Pomelo, to unpack why waiting a full year to launch a card program became the startup thesis behind one of Latin America’s fastest-growing fintech infrastructure companies. Drawing from his experience scaling fintech in LATAM, Gaston shares how infrastructure bottlenecks around issuing, processing, and credit card management pushed Pomelo to rethink how modern payments infrastructure should work. The conversation explores ...