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Case 02
Payments · Banking

Plugging Fintechs into Mexico's Central Bank

InterPago is our payments-infrastructure platform that connects Mexican banks and fintechs directly to Banxico's real-time payment rails — SPEI for pesos, SPID for dollars — with the certification maze handled.

Payments Infrastructure
Banks & fintechs on Mexico's payment rails
Plugging Fintechs into Mexico's Central Bank

The problem

To move money in Mexico, an institution must speak the central bank's own wire language: binary messages with exact byte layouts, cryptographic signatures, partitioned packets, and separate channels for payments, security, and receipts — six or more distinct connections, each with its own protocol, plus contingency procedures for the days when the primary systems fail. Getting this wrong is not a bug; it is a compliance event. Most fintechs face months of specification-reading before they can send their first test message.

The solution

InterPago packages the entire problem: participant-side SPEI and SPID connectivity, the CoDi and DiMo digital payment schemes, certificate and digital-signature lifecycle management, liquidity projection, reconciliation, and an operations dashboard. We even built a Banxico simulator — a stand-in for the central bank's own systems — so a client can rehearse certification before the real exam.

The reference architecture is engineered for regulated scale: ten thousand transactions per second on the design sheet, with the event log as the source of truth so every peso's path can be replayed. The platform exists as working middleware with real protocol implementations, a bilingual commercial website, and an implementation methodology refined across two technology generations.

Built for enterprise

10,000 TPS reference architecture
event-sourced ledger with full replay
cryptographic signing & certificate lifecycle management
horizontally sharded data layer with automatic failover
contingency operations (COA/POA) & disaster recovery
reactive low-latency core
Banxico pre-certification simulator
PCI-DSS / CNBV / AML-CFT compliance framing
end-to-end reconciliation
To send money in Mexico you must speak the central bank's private language, perfectly, every time. We already speak it — so our clients don't have to learn.
In plain language

This story is relevant to

Banks, sofipos, and fintechs entering or scaling in Mexican payments — and any institution facing a central-bank integration anywhere.

Ships as a platform

InterPago

Direct connectivity to Mexico's central-bank payment rails

Facing something like this?

The architecture, phasing, and commercials are already prepared. Most engagements begin with a proof-of-concept measured in weeks.

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