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Visa traz executivo do México para comandar área de riscos no Brasil

Alexandre Monteiro/Visa | Imagem: divulgaçãoAlexandre Monteiro assume a vice-presidência após liderar a divisão de risco da companhia no mercado mexicano

Alexandre Monteiro/Visa | Imagem: divulgaçãoAlexandre Monteiro assume a vice-presidência após liderar a divisão de risco da companhia no mercado mexicano

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  • Tema: Banca y Fintech — Banca digital, pagos, open banking y regulación financiera.
  • Fonte: Finsiders Brasil
  • Publicado: 13/10/2026

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Why it matters

In payments, innovation always runs one step ahead of regulation and two steps ahead of the systems that have to support it. That gap is where the business is decided: whoever closes it without breaking compliance takes the market.

My view here is shaped by the Panamanian market: regulation changes, standards arrive with a deadline, and the operation has to keep invoicing while it adapts. The useful question is not whether it suits you, it is how much time there is to comply.

What usually goes wrong

The mistake that repeats is testing only the happy path. It gets validated that the transaction works, not that the reversal works, that duplicates are caught, that a power cut mid-operation leaves everything consistent. Those cases are ninety per cent of the real work and ten per cent of the testing.

What to watch

  • What the local regulator requires and by when, because the deadline is usually the real constraint.
  • How money is returned when something fails, and how fast the customer sees it.
  • Which part of the customer relationship ends up with a third party and whether that is reversible.

How I read this entry

What I would ask for before approving something like this is the plan for when it fails: how the customer gets their money back, in what timeframe, who authorises it and what they are told meanwhile. In payments, the quality of the recovery matters more than the quality of the happy path.

The original story is published in another language; the excerpt is quoted as the publisher delivers it and the commentary is written in English.
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