Mexico Fintech Kapital Raises Funds to Build Out AI Platform
THE SO WHAT
Kapital’s $125M equity-and-debt raise to build an AI platform is another data point that fintech margins are migrating to who can underwrite and automate better, not who owns the card or app. Regional financial players without a clear AI data and modeling plan are effectively conceding yield and risk selection to those who do.
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