Fintech Americas Awards Gold to Kirill Eves for Leading Digital Payments Transformation in Latin America

The annual Fintech Americas Financial Innovators Awards recognize outstanding innovation in financial technology across the Americas, honoring banks, fintechs, and individuals for transforming the industry with new products, services, and business models.

Eves was recognized for his work in advancing the digitalization of Latin America’s economy, including more traditional sectors such as transport and essential services, where cash remains the dominant payment method. Eves now joins “The Fintech Americas 25,” a list recognizing the top 25 industry leaders driving fintech innovation and transformation in the region.

The selection took place in a highly competitive field, with more than 100 submissions from the region’s most innovative fintech organizations across the region evaluated by major Latin American venture capital funds.

This award reaffirms Unlimit’s role not only in supporting companies’ local and global expansion but also in digitizing their payment processes, particularly for businesses that still conduct a significant share of their transactions in cash. At the same time, the company helps reduce barriers to financial system access for millions of unbanked users. For example, cash still accounts for about 37 percent of consumer spending in Latin America, according to a 2025 report by PCMI Insights.

Unlimit has been driving this transformation in partnership with Latin America’s largest providers of essential services such as water, electricity, transportation, and internet. Through its industry-leading portfolio of card-based and alternative payment methods (SPEI, CoDi), combined with specialized consultancy to increase digital payment conversion, Unlimit is actively contributing to the modernization of Latin America’s payment ecosystem, advancing financial inclusion and digital access throughout the region.

“I am honored to receive the Gold Award in the Financial Inclusion category from one of Latin America’s most prestigious fintech awards. I extend this recognition to Unlimit’s exceptional team of experts in Latin America who support many of the region’s leading enterprises. This achievement reflects our collective vision to remove financial borders, whether geographical or operational, empowering businesses to unlimit their expansion while contributing to a more financially inclusive society,” said Kirill Eves, founder and CEO of Unlimit.

An alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Eves founded Unlimit in 2009 with a bold vision to eliminate financial borders for businesses worldwide. Under his leadership, Unlimit has developed the world’s largest payments infrastructure that serves more than 50,000 businesses and more than a billion users worldwide, and established itself as a leading global provider of financial solutions.