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“Claude, where did my money go this month?"
Belvo MCP is now an official connector in Claude. Anyone in Brazil or Mexico can connect their own bank, employment, or tax accounts for free and ask Claude about their finances, with every answer drawn from verified, consented data. In this post, the engineers who built the connector show how to set it up in four steps, what happens behind each question, and what comes next.
Sergio, Ioannis & Evandro

INSTANTLY APPROVE DIRECT DEBIT WITH BELVO'S DIGITAL FLOW
Meet our new digital direct debit authorization flow in Mexico.
Amanda Pofahl

How Custom Insights adapts Open Finance data to your model
Get Brazilian Open Finance data shaped to your credit model.
Amanda Pofahl

Recover missed payments in Mexico with Managed Collections
Collections in Mexico, handled end to end by Belvo.
Amanda Pofahl

Belvo MCPs: the new agentic open finance
Open finance data your agents can call.
Uri Tintoré
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Inside Belvo's hackathon: building AI agents
Belvo just wrapped its third company-wide hackathon, and its second one this year. The first ran in 2025 and it was such a success that we decided to do even more. This year, we split it into two events: one in the first semester, and this one, held in August. The theme was AI agents: […]
Belvo Team

Life of a product manager at Belvo
Ask a product manager at most companies what their week looks like, and you'll hear about roadmaps and sprint planning. Ask a product manager at Belvo, and you'll get a different answer: sales calls, regulatory filings, a cost calculation for a client renewal, and a strategy session with the CEO, sometimes all in the same […]
Belvo Team

From Hackathon to real life: What Belvo's People Team is bui...
What started as a company-wide experiment became something much bigger: real tools, built by real Belvoers, changing how we work every day. At Belvo, we are used to moving fast. But at the beginning of 2025, we decided to try something different: pause the day-to-day, mix engineers with salespeople, designers with the People team, finance […]
Belvo Team

Smart Collections: collect when the money comes in
Meet Smart Collections, Belvo's new product built for loan repayment. The solution collects automatically at the exact moment the customer has balance to pay, with no action required from the borrower. Most lenders run collections on a fixed schedule: the installment is due on the 5th, so a reminder goes out on the 5th, another […]
Amanda Pofahl

Smart Transfers: automaTE PIX transfers in brazil
Unlock recurring payments to drive predictable cash flow.
Amanda Pofahl

Belvo team's offsites: The world is our office
At Belvo, we are building the leading Open Finance platform across Latin America. Our team is spread across Brazil, Mexico, and beyond, working in a remote and hybrid setup that gives us flexibility without sacrificing connection. But real connection takes more than a great video call. That is why, once a year, we do something […]
Belvo Team

7 Years of Belvo: Building the intelligence layer in financi...
Seven years ago, two founders looked at Latin America's financial system and saw the same thing everyone else saw: a fragmented, siloed, deeply unequal landscape where data lived trapped inside institutions, credit was rationed by proxies instead of reality, and payments failed one in four times. The difference is they decided to do something about […]
Belvo Team

Ask Bela: Your Ultimate belvo Co-Pilot
Belvo's AI assistant has evolved. Discover how Bela goes beyond guiding your API integration to become your no-code data expert, turning your Open Finance data into instant business insights. Bela is Belvo's AI assistant, built directly into the Belvo dashboard to make your Open Finance operations more predictable, efficient, and accessible. Originally designed as an […]
Amanda Pofahl

Belvo and Plata Bank join forces to strengthen digital banking in Mexico
Belvo and Plata Bank integrate employment data and bank direct debit to automate income verification, collections, and digital financial services in Mexico.
Ximena Aguirre

Growing with Belvo: The Mexico Payments team
At Belvo, we often say that we aren't just building a company; we are building the future of financial infrastructure in Latin America. But that future isn’t built by code alone — it’s built by people who are resilient, adaptable, and ready to grow alongside the product. Today, we’re sharing the journey of two incredible […]
Belvo Team

Belvo Mexico PCI DSS Level 1 validation
Belvo Mexico has achieved PCI DSS Level 1 validation for Direct Debit through a Report on Compliance (ROC) issued by an external independent auditor, reinforcing the security, resilience, and trust behind recurring payment infrastructure in Mexico.
Ximena Aguirre

Introducing Belvo AI Collection Agents
With Belvo's AI Collections solution, companies can automate their entire collections operation using AI voice and WhatsApp agents — no call centers or manual teams required. The delinquency crisis in Latin America is not a future risk — it is a present reality. In Brazil, 81.7 million people are currently in default, meaning roughly half […]
Amanda Pofahl