Mexico City: The financial brain of Latin America's new economy

While Monterrey dominates manufacturing, Mexico City is consolidating its position as the soft infrastructure capital of Latin America as it prepares to host FINNOSUMMIT 2025 in September, the region's premier financial technology (fintech) event.

Mexico City is consolidating its status as the epicenter of talent, innovation, and capital driving Latin America's digital economy. The upcoming FINNOSUMMIT 2025 in September is the latest testament to its dominance in the financial technology and insurtech sectors.

The event, which will take place at Expo Santa Fe, is expected to attract more than 3,000 attendees and feature more than 250 world-class speakers. Confirmed speakers include key figures such as Google's first Chief Decision Scientist, Cassie Kozyrkov, and senior executives from McKinsey & Company, Banco Azteca, and QED Investors.

The FINNOSUMMIT comes at a time of explosive growth for the fintech sector in the region. Between 2023 and 2024, the sector registered an impressive 31% year-over-year increase, a clear sign of its robustness and investor confidence.

This year's event theme, "Fintech Beyond Disruption: The New Financial System," reflects a new reality: fintechs are no longer just disruptors, but fundamental pillars of Latin America's economic infrastructure, with solutions that extend to healthcare, commerce, and mobility.

"The fintech sector in Latin America registered a compound annual growth rate of approximately 22% between 2021 and 2024, with a year-over-year increase of 31% between 2023 and 2024." – Industry data cited by FF News.

While industrial hubs like Monterrey are becoming centers of manufacturing and physical nearshoring, Mexico City is cornering the market in "soft infrastructure": the networks of talent, venture capital, and innovation that drive the knowledge economy.

The FINNOSUMMIT is not just a conference; it is the embodiment of this phenomenon. The gathering of thought leaders, high-impact entrepreneurs, and global investors in the capital underscores its role as the intellectual and financial brain of the new economy in Mexico and the entire region.

Mexico is developing two powerful and complementary economic centers. If Monterrey is the factory, Mexico City is, without a doubt, the design office, the innovation laboratory, and the stock exchange that will finance the future.