In Episode 10 of the Fintech Americas series, we sit down with Driss Temsamani, Head of Digital for Latin America, Canada, and the United States at Citigroup — recorded live at Fintech Americas Miami.Author of The Agentic Bank and one of the most recognized voices in financial digital transformation, Driss has been attending Fintech Americas since the very first edition. In this conversation he walks through the three stages of AI evolution — from weak AI to Artificial Super Intelligence — what it means for a bank to truly become agentic, and why the future he's working toward is one of abundance rather than scarcity.🎙️ Featured Guest: Driss Temsamani | Head of Digital, LatAm, Canada & US, Citigroup LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drisstemsamani/The Agentic Bank: https://www.theagenticbank.ai/Connect with us: Instagram & LinkedIn: @SquareRootMarketingWebsite: www.squarerootmarketing.com

In Episode 9 of the Let's Wine: Stories Uncorked™ series at Fintech Americas, Andrea Padilla, CEO & Founder of Square Root Marketing, uncorks a tempranillo with Pablo Pereyra Portugal, Chief Revenue Officer at 2innovate — a Uruguayan-born company now operating across 12 countries and processing over 20 billion transactions per year for 40 million people across Latin America.Pablo breaks down the philosophy behind Frame Banking™: a platform that puts the financial transaction at the center of the architecture, enabling banks and fintechs to model business needs directly rather than working around what legacy systems allow. The conversation covers the freshly launched Frame IQ, and why 2026 is shaping up as a year of consolidation and expansion for one of the region's most quietly powerful fintech infrastructure companies.Featured Guest: Pablo Pereyra Portugal Chief Revenue Officer, 2innovateLinkedIn:   / pablo-pereyra-portugal  Connect with us: www.squarerootmarketing.comLinkedIn:   / squarerootmarketing  Instagram:   / squarerootmarketing  

In this episode of our Fintech Americas series, we sit down with Julián Colombo, CEO of N5 Now — a software company built specifically for the banking industry, recorded live at Fintech Americas Miami.Julián shares the story behind the name N5, breaks down what it really means to build banking software in the AI era — "building castles with bricks that change size every day" — and gives us his honest perspective on where the future of customer experience in financial services is headed. We also get into how banking has taken its long-awaited technological step, the opportunities and challenges ahead for innovation, and what financial inclusion means when technology actually gets it right.🎙️ Featured Guest: Julián Colombo | CEO, N5 Now LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliancolombo/ N5 Now: www.n5now.comConnect with us: Instagram & LinkedIn: @SquareRootMarketing Website: www.squarerootmarketing.com

In Episode 7 of the Fintech Americas series, we uncork the conversation with Francisco Gómez, Director of Play Digital Consulting — part of the LEGO Group — recorded live at Fintech Americas Miami.Frank breaks down composable banking the LEGO way, shares his honest take on the AI hype cycle, and makes the case for why the next generation of customers won't adapt to the bank, it's the other way around. And yes, there's a moment where a toy company leveled up the game for a veteran banking architect. That story is in here too.🎙️ Featured Guest: Francisco Gómez | Director, Play Digital Consulting LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankgves/ Play Digital Consulting: https://www.linkedin.com/company/playdigitalconsulting/ Connect with us: Instagram & LinkedIn: @SquareRootMarketing Website: www.squarerootmarketing.com

In Episode 6 of the Fintech Americas series, we sit down with Marcelo Fondacaro, CCO of Veritran — recorded live at Fintech Americas Miami.Veritran is a global tech company devoted to simplifying banking experiences. With more than 20 years of experience and a presence in 16 countries, Veritran is proud to be a key strategic partner for leading clients across Latin America, North America, and Europe. In this conversation Marcelo shares the philosophy that has guided Veritran since day one: create solutions with purpose.He also shares his take on AI — why he's not afraid of it, how Veritran is using it to automate repetitive tasks and personalize user experiences, and why the real danger is never the technology itself. And after 10 years attending Fintech Americas, he leaves us with a simple observation: the venue keeps getting smaller — because the industry keeps getting bigger.🎙️ Featured Guest: Marcelo Fondacaro | CCO, VeritranLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelofondacaroVeritran: www.veritran.comConnect with us:Instagram & LinkedIn: @SquareRootMarketingWebsite: www.squarerootmarketing.com

In Episode 5 of the Fintech Americas series, we sit downwith Vickmar Martínez, Technology Manager at Mercantil Seguros — recorded live at Fintech Americas Miami, where her team received two awards on the same day.

Hear Vickmar share the story behind Merse, their multichannel AI-powered virtual assistant that reduced customer service demand by 40%, and the commercialization platform launched in Panama that achieved 70% market penetration. We also get into why AI deployed in silos only delivers 6% optimization, what it really means to embed intelligence at the core of a business, and why her philosophy on technology has always been simple: don't sell clients the products you have — sell them the ones they need.

🎙️ Featured Guest:Vickmar Martínez | Technology Manager, Mercantil Seguros LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vickmar-mart%C3%ADnezMercantil Seguros: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercantil-seguros/

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We're launching a very special three-episode series with our guest Felicia Travaillot — "Felixandra, The Great" — CMO, industry leader, mom, and a role model for women building their path in the corporate world.In this first episode, Andrea Padilla and Felicia uncork the story of how Feli went from a fresh-out-of-college marketing associate to a seat in the C-Suite of a fintech — with no mentors, no instruction manual, and no roadmap to follow.This episode is for every woman who has ever wondered "how do other women get where they are?" — the short answer is that they're also figuring it out as they go. Fake it 'til you make it, but with a plan.👩‍💼 Guest: Felicia Travaillot, CMO🎤 Hosted by: Andrea Padilla, CEO & Founder of Square Root Marketing📍 Connect with Felicia on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok, where she's launching a series on women's health and perimenopause (which we'll dive into in Episode 3!).🎧 Subscribe so you don't miss Episodes 2 and 3 of this series.

In Episode 5 of the Plastics News Executive Forum series, wesit down with Bill Wood, Economics Editor at Plastics News — recorded live at the Plastics News Executive Forum in Florida.

Bill has spent decades tracking economic trends and connecting them to the plastics industry. In this conversation he makes the case that plastic should never be called waste — it's raw material ready to be reclaimed — breaks down the recycling education gap, and shares his unfilteredperspective on what AI really means for manufacturing workers.

We also get into why economics, at its core, is the study of consciousness and choice, and why the most valuable thing anyone can build right now is an adaptable mindset.

🎙️ Featured Guest: BillWood | Economics Editor, Plastics News LinkedIn: [link] Plastics News: www.plasticsnews.com

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In Episode 4 of the Fintech Americas series, we uncork a Tempranillo with Mauricio Fernández, Sales Director at ACI Worldwide — recorded live at Fintech Americas Miami.

Hear Mauricio break down how COVID accelerated digital payment adoption across Latin America, why payments are mission-critical infrastructure the economy cannot afford to lose, and what Brazil's Pix teaches the rest of the world about building instant payment systems that actually work.We also get into real-time fraud prevention, the role of AI in payment orchestration, and why the goal was never to replace payment instruments — it was to orchestrate them. Plus, his closing message to the industry: don't be afraid to question whether what you're doing is actually working.

🎙️ Featured Guest:

Mauricio Fernández | Sales Director, ACI Worldwide

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauriciofernandezc

ACI Worldwide: www.aciworldwide.com

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Four companies. One vision. One brand. Movantis brought together TransNetwork, Inswitch, Spectrum, and Appriza Pay to build what the industry has been missing: a single infrastructure layer for cross-border payments, stablecoins, FX, and embedded finance — launched at Fintech Americas Miami with the energy of a startup and the weight of decades behind it.We uncork Episode 3 of our Fintech Americas series with a Ribera del Duero Tempranillo and Salvador Yáñez, Chief Product Officer of Movantis. Chava's journey spans Citibank, Google X, NuBank Mexico from scratch, Stripe LatAm, and Rappi Bank. In this episode we get into the Lego analogy behind their platform strategy, why they move value — not just money — and why his closing message is simple: it's always day one.🎙️ Featured Guest: Salvador "Chava" Yáñez | Chief Product Officer, Movantis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salyanez/ Movantis: www.movantis.comConnect with us: Instagram & LinkedIn: @SquareRootMarketing Website: www.squarerootmarketing.com