Finerio Connect Receives Award at Fintech Americas Miami 2022

Mexican startup Finerio Connect received the platinum award at Fintech Americas Miami 2022, coming in first place in the “Infrastructure, Ecosystem & Back End” category and becoming the first open banking fintech to win this award.

Finerio Connect works in the B2B market, helping fintechs and financial institutions through its bank aggregation, data enrichment and financial experience products. Over the last years, the company has expanded its operations to Chile and Colombia. The startup can also work together with traditional banks, wrote in MBN Nick Grassi, Co-CEO, Finerio Connect: “Infrastructure players like Finerio Connect, with their financial technology, can become the perfect allies of traditional banking to use their infrastructure and development in order to connect to banks, process data, as well as tools such as Personal Finance Management or Business Finance Management.”

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