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      Juan Pablo Ortega

      Juan Pablo Ortega

      Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

      Yuno

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      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

      • 4:40–5:15pmWed 18 NovFounders StageHall 2, Singapore EXPOPremium

        Policy Rewiring

        Is Cross-Border Mutual Recognition Through Sandboxes Now Closer or Farther?

        Founders StageHall 2, Singapore EXPOPremium

        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 progress by Kenya and Rwanda’s central banks in establishing mutual licence-passporting demonstrates that cross-border supervisory reciprocity is workable in 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.