About

Provided by Bello, Gallardo, Bonequi y García, S.C.

The department advises on fintech authorization under the Fintech Law, including electronic payment fund institutions (digital wallets) and crowdfunding platforms, as well as virtual assets, AML/CTF compliance, embedded finance, cross-border payments, banking and securities regulation, insurtech structuring, and supervisory proceedings before the CNBV and Banxico. The team integrates regulatory, corporate and compliance strategies to structure innovative financial models with legal certainty and supervisory alignment.

The practice represents domestic and international fintech platforms, payment service providers, crypto-asset businesses, banks, insurers, multinational technology companies, high-growth startups and industry associations operating or entering the Mexican market.

Recent highlights include advising global fintech and payment companies on market entry and regulatory structuring in Mexico; assisting electronic payment institutions in complex authorization and post-authorization processes; designing compliant crypto-asset adoption frameworks for commercial groups; structuring embedded finance and digital wallet models; and leading AML audits, high-risk compliance reviews and regulatory remediation programs.

The department is particularly recognized for fintech regulation, digital wallets, virtual assets and crypto, AML/CTF compliance, supervisory defense, cross-border financial services and regulatory risk mitigation in emerging financial technologies.

Chambers Review

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FinTech Legal - Mexico

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Bello, Gallardo, Bonequi y García, S.C. has a strong practice in assisting e-wallet, payments and money transfer companies with obtaining authorisations from the National Banking and Securities Commission to operate as regulated FinTechs in Mexico. The firm also advises on regulatory and corporate matters, as well as financings.

Work Highlights

  • Bello, Gallardo, Bonequi y García advised Coinbase on legal and regulatory matters related to the deployment of its services in Mexico.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Javier Pérez Moreno
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Javier Pérez Moreno
3
Band 3

Javier Pérez Moreno's clients include noteworthy digital asset companies, payment service providers and digital lenders. He advises on legal and regulatory matters including licensing and AML compliance.

Javier was quick to understand our business model and goals, and he delivered the opinion quickly and to the point.

Miguel Gallardo Guerra
3
Miguel Gallardo Guerra
3
Band 3

Miguel Gallardo Guerra is the managing partner of BGBG's FinTech practice group. He advises on matters relating to payments, digital assets, lending and open finance.

Miguel is an excellent lawyer who not only understands the requirement, but is involved in the company's growth and anticipates new challenges.

Ranked Individuals at
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Mexico

FinTech Legal

Javier Pérez Moreno
3
Javier Pérez Moreno
3
Band 3
Miguel Gallardo Guerra
3
Miguel Gallardo Guerra
3
Band 3

Members

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Javier Perez-Moreno

Head of Department

Juan Carlos Tejado

Miguel Gallardo- Guerra

Head of Department

Clients

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Bybit

Citibanamex

Cobee

Coda Payments

CoinMetro

Coinbase

Conekta

Cori Capital

Elektra

Fairplay

Fedex

Galactic Markets

General Motors Financial

Get Cometa

Global66

Insurex

Interlinked

Juntos Financiera

KLU

Konfio

Kravata

Mercado Libre

Mercedes Benz

Mexicrowd

Mountx

Nelo

Nubank

OpenBank

Oplay

Orbital

Pagsmile

Panda Pay

PayJoy

PayPros

Pluxee

RedotPay

Satoshi Portal

Super Digital

Tan-Tan

Uber

X

dLocal

Industries

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AML / Financial Crime

Banking and Neobanks

Capital Markets

Compliance

Cross-Border Payments

Crypto

Digital Assets

E-commerce

Electronic Money

Embedded Finance

Financial

Financial Services

Fintech

Insurance

Insurtech

Insurtech

Lending

Lending

Open Banking

Payments

RegTech

Securities

Tech providers

Technology Platforms

Virtual Assets