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Authorization is granted for the organization and operation of Pomelo Technologies, S.A. de C.V. as an Electronic Payment Funds Institution subject to specific bases including an initial capital of $12,338,038.08 MXN and domicile in Mexico City. The entity must demonstrate compliance with Article 40 of the Law to Regulate Financial Technology Institutions at least thirty business days prior to starting operations. This authorization is non-transferable and subjects the institution to supervision by the National Banking and Securities Commission and the Bank of Mexico.
Official Gazette of the Federation: 16/11/2023
OFFICE MEMORANDUM granting authorization for the organization and operation of an electronic payment funds institution to be named Pomelo Technologies, S.A. de C.V.
In the margin a seal with the National Shield, stating: United Mexican States.- FINANCE.- Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.- National Banking and Securities Commission.- Vice Presidency of Normativity.- General Directorate of Specialized Authorizations.- Vice Presidency of Supervision of Groups and Financial Intermediaries B.- General Directorate of Supervision of Financial Technology Institutions.-
Office Memorandum No.: 311-33115137/2023.
Subject:
Authorization for the organization and operation of an
Electronic Payment Funds Institution to be named
Pomelo Technologies, S.A. de C.V., Electronic Payment Funds
Institution.
POMELO TECHNOLOGIES, S.A. DE C.V.
PEDREGAL STREET NUMBER 24, " TORRE VIRREYES "
FLOOR 24, MOLINO DEL REY NEIGHBORHOOD, ALCALDÍA
MIGUEL HIDALGO, ZIP CODE 11040, MEXICO CITY.
Attention:
Mr. JOSÉ RAYMUNDO GUERRERO NOVAL
LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE
In terms of articles 1 and 2 of the Law of the National Banking and Securities Commission, this National
Banking and Securities Commission (Commission) is a decentralized body of the Ministry of Finance and
Public Credit, which aims to supervise and regulate within its competence the entities
integrating the Mexican financial system, in order to ensure their stability and correct functioning, as
well as maintain and promote the sound and balanced development of said system as a whole, in protection of
the interests of the public. According to article 4, sections XI and XXXVIII of said Law, the Commission is
responsible for authorizing the constitution and operation of those entities indicated by the laws, as well as
exercise the other powers attributed to it by the Law of the National Banking
and Securities Commission.
In that order of ideas, article 35 of the Law to Regulate Financial Technology Institutions
establishes that persons who intend to carry out the activities attributed to institutions of
crowdfunding or electronic payment funds, must request their authorization as an institution of
financial technology before the Commission, which will grant it when in its judgment the legal and regulatory
requirements are adequately met, prior agreement of the Interinstitutional Committee referred to in said
article
Considering the above, with a document presented on September 7, 2022, Mr. José Raymundo
Guerrero Noval, representing the company named Pomelo Technologies, S.A. de C.V. (Pomelo,
the Company or the Promoter), requested from the Commission authorization to organize and operate an Institution
of
Electronic Payment Funds to be named Pomelo Technologies, S.A. de C.V., Electronic Payment Funds
Institution, attaching thereto the corresponding supporting information and documentation indicated
in article 39 of the Law to Regulate Financial Technology Institutions.
In terms of article 5, second paragraph of the Law to Regulate Financial Technology
Institutions, this Commission prevented Pomelo within the period established in said law to address
various observations in relation to its authorization request, in addition to granting an extension to the period
initial to address them.
In relation to the above, Pomelo sent documentation and information in order to respond to the
prevention referred to above. Additionally, this authority required from the Promoter diverse documentation and
complementary information in order to have sufficient elements of judgment to resolve
on the authorization request presented by Pomelo; company that attended the request for
complementary information and sent updated documentation and information in relation to its file.
The Company requested an extension to the resolution period and an extension for the processing, which were
granted to it.
Having stated the above, you are informed that the Interinstitutional Committee in session held on 6
of November 2023, based on articles 11 and 35, in relation to article 22 of the Law to
Regulate Financial Technology Institutions and,
CONSIDERING
FIRST. - That the documentation and information presented by reason of the authorization request
for the organization and operation of the Electronic Payment Funds Institution to be named Pomelo
Technologies, S.A. de C.V., Electronic Payment Funds Institution, complies with the requirements provided in
article 22, in correlation with article 39 of the Law to Regulate Financial Technology
Institutions and with articles 3, 4 and 6 of the General Provisions applicable to Institutions
of Financial Technology, and,
SECOND. - That from the analysis of the documentation and information received it was concluded that from the point
of legal, financial and operational view it is appropriate to grant the requested authorization, therefore, in accordance
to the certification of the Secretary of the Interinstitutional Committee, which is transcribed in the relevant part, the following was
adopted:
AGREEMENT
" FIRST. - The members of the Interinstitutional Committee, in accordance with articles
11 and 35, in relation to article 22 of the Law to Regulate Financial Technology
Institutions, agreed unanimously to grant the authorization for the organization and
operation of an electronic payment funds institution to be named Pomelo
Technologies, S.A. de C.V., Electronic Payment Funds Institution. "
The previous agreement is adopted without prejudice to the other authorizations that, by reason of the act described,
must be obtained from the Commission or any other financial authority, in terms of the provisions
applicable, as well as the exercise of the powers attributed to the Commission itself during the process of
organization of Pomelo Technologies, S.A. de C.V., Electronic Payment Funds Institution, in which
the applicable requirements for the start of operations must be met.
Therefore, this National Banking and Securities Commission, prior agreement of the Interinstitutional Committee
authorizes the organization and operation of an Electronic Payment Funds Institution to be named Pomelo
Technologies, S.A. de C.V., Electronic Payment Funds Institution.
The entity whose organization and operation is authorized, will be subject to the following:
BASES
FIRST.
The name of the company shall be Pomelo Technologies, S.A. de C.V., Electronic Payment
Funds Institution.
SECOND.
It shall have its social domicile in Mexico City.
THIRD.
Its duration shall be indefinite.
FOURTH.
The amount of its initial share capital shall be $12 ' 338,038.08 (twelve million three hundred
thirty-eight thousand thirty-eight pesos 08/100 National Currency)
FIFTH.
Its corporate purpose shall correspond to the realization of the activities in national
currency contemplated in article 22 of the Law to Regulate Financial Technology
Institutions. Additionally, it may carry out the activities provided in article 25 of the
legal ordinance indicated above, in accordance with its corporate purpose.
SIXTH.
The authorization referred to in this office memorandum is, by its own nature,
non-transferable.
SEVENTH.
Pomelo Technologies, S.A. de C.V., Electronic Payment Funds Institution shall be
subject to the supervision of the National Banking and Securities Commission and of the Bank of
Mexico, in the exercise of their respective attributes, as well as of the other authorities
financial competent in the terms that the laws provide and provisions that from
these emanate.
EIGHTH.
The services consisting of the issuance, administration, redemption and transmission of funds
of electronic payment that Pomelo Technologies, S.A. de C.V., Electronic Payment
Funds Institution provides by virtue of this authorization, as well as the other
operations that it carries out, as well as its organization and operation in general, shall
be subject to the Law to Regulate Financial Technology Institutions, to the rules and
general provisions applicable to Financial Technology Institutions
issued by the National Banking and Securities Commission, to the provisions that jointly issued the National Banking and Securities Commission and the Bank of Mexico and to
the other norms and provisions in force and those that are issued in the future by any
competent authority, including those relating to operations with resources of illicit origin
and terrorism financing, which by their nature are applicable.
Pomelo Technologies, S.A. de C.V., Electronic Payment Funds Institution, must accredit to this
Commission, with at least thirty business days of anticipation to the start of its operations, compliance with
the requirements established in article 40 of the Law to Regulate Financial Technology Institutions.
The present is issued based on the legal provisions invoked above, as well as in exercise
of the powers conferred in articles 1, 2, 4, sections XI and XXXVIII, 10, section V of the Law of the
National Banking and Securities Commission, as well as articles 1, 3, section V, 4, sections I, subsection B, and
II, subsection B, numerals 22) and 32), 14, 35, 45, section I and 64, third paragraph of the Internal Regulations of the
National Banking and Securities Commission, published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on February 28
of
Sincerely
Mexico City, November 7, 2023.- General Director of Specialized Authorizations,
Lic.
Brenda Amparo Menes Cárdenas .- Signature.- General Director of Supervision of Institutions of
Financial Technology, Mtra. Leticia Castellanos García .- Signature.
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