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Juan Pablo Ortega
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Yuno
Juan Pablo Ortega is the Co-founder and CEO of Yuno, a payment orchestrator solving online payments and fraud around the world.
Before Yuno, Juan Pablo co-founded Rappi, Latin America’s largest and fastest-growing on-demand platform and one of the region’s “unicorn” startups. As co-founder, Juan Pablo has played an instrumental role in taking the company from being a small team food delivery startup to becoming one of the region’s largest, multi-functional digital platforms with operations in nine countries and a valuation of ~$5.2B. Juan Pablo started Rappi's rapid international expansion, launching Mexico, and then built and scaled Rappi’s Payments and Fraud teams and capabilities while architecting the buildout of Rappi’s financial services arm – starting with RappiPay. RappiPay offers Rappi users a variety of digital payment functionalities, including in-store QR payments, P2P, and bill payment services, as well as a contactless-enabled Visa debit card. He strongly advocates for digital inclusion and has remained focused on evolving Rappi into the first true super-app of Latin America.
Juan Pablo received a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics from Cornell University and is an FAA Instrument-rated Commercial Pilot. He currently resides in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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4:40–5:15pmWed 18 NovFounders StageHall 2, Singapore EXPOPremium
Policy Rewiring
Is Cross-Border Mutual Recognition Through Sandboxes Now Closer or Further?
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Juan Pablo OrtegaCo-founder & Chief Executive OfficerYuno
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Owureku AsareDirector, FinTech & InnovationBank of Ghana
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Shweta Rajpal KohliPresident & Chief Executive OfficerStartup Policy Forum
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Friederike LangeHead of Digital Finance, Payment Services & CybersecurityGerman Federal Ministry of Finance
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Arjun Vir SinghPartner, Global Head of Fintech & Digital AssetsArthur D. LittleModerator
About this session
Expanding across fragmented regional markets forces digital finance startups into repetitive licensing cycles that multiply compliance costs and stall international scale. Recent agreements between Rwanda’s central bank and its counterparts in Ghana and Kenya to establish fintech licence passporting show that cross-border supervisory reciprocity is moving from principle to practice. A recent survey by TechCabal Research revealed that 62.5% of regional fintechs already operate internationally or plan to, with an identical proportion backing passporting frameworks. This session convenes financial regulators and founders to examine how central banks can align supervisory frameworks and establish mutual recognition standards without compromising financial stability or compliance oversight.
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