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Stori Technologies, S.A.P.I. de C.V.
Stori is a Mexican digital bank that gives credit cards and savings accounts to people who have historically been shut out of the traditional banking system.
Stori is a digital bank in Mexico that started with credit cards and now offers savings accounts too. Its customers are mostly people who have never had a credit card before — millions of Mexicans who earn money, spend money, and want to build a credit history, but whom the big traditional banks never bothered to serve because their incomes were too small or their records too thin.
Here is the basic problem Stori attacks. In Mexico, cash still rules, and a huge share of adults have no formal credit history. Without a record of borrowing and repaying, big banks have no easy way to judge whether someone is trustworthy, so they simply say no. Stori flips that: it approves people the old banks reject, hands them a card with a modest spending limit, and watches how they actually use it. Pay on time month after month, and the app raises your limit and unlocks better products. That repayment track record becomes the very thing that was missing. Customers choose Stori because getting in the door is fast and done from a phone — no branch visit, no paperwork pile, no rejection at the counter. The company makes money the way most card issuers do: from interest on balances people carry, from fees merchants pay when a card is swiped, and from annual card fees. When a customer keeps a balance, Stori earns interest on it; when they pay in full, Stori still collects a small cut from the merchant side of each transaction. It also now pays interest to customers who park money in its savings accounts, which gives people a reason to keep cash inside the app rather than at a rival.
Stori has raised serious venture money to fund this — well over $400 million across several rounds, including a large round in 2022 that valued it in the billion-dollar range, making it one of Mexico's rare "unicorns." That capital matters because lending is a balance-sheet business: to hand out cards, you need money to lend. Stori's bet is that careful underwriting on a huge, underserved population produces a durable, high-quality loan book that bigger banks ignored. The risk is equally real — lending to first-time borrowers in a cash-heavy economy means defaults can bite hard if the economy sours, and competitors like Nu Holdings are chasing the same customers with deep pockets. Stori's edge, if it holds, is data: the more it lends and gets repaid, the better it can tell a good borrower from a bad one, and that knowledge compounds.
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