Fintech Executive · Financial Journalist · Builder

Mauricio Carrillo

Cross-border payments and digital assets executive with 15 years building where traditional finance meets blockchain infrastructure. Founder of Witbrew. Creator of the FXStreet Currency Forecast Sentiment Tool.

I open markets, close partnerships, and build the payment infrastructure that moves institutional capital across borders.

4
Languages
150+
Country Network
10+
Countries Expanded
15+
Years Experience

Markets don't reward comfort — they reward mispricing.

From "First-World Bias Is Costing You Money"
★ Original Innovation · 2010

FXStreet Currency Forecast
Sentiment Tool

In 2010 I identified a gap nobody had filled — traders and institutions needed a way to aggregate analyst forecasts into a single directional signal. I built it from scratch at FXStreet.

The Currency Forecast Sentiment Tool became a globally used market intelligence instrument. It is still used by traders and institutions worldwide today — more than a decade after its creation.

The tool that started as a question nobody had a clean answer to became the answer for everyone.

EUR/USD SentimentBullish 68%
GBP/USD SentimentBullish 54%
USD/JPY SentimentBearish 61%
BTC/USD SentimentBullish 72%
XAU/USD SentimentBullish 81%

Illustrative · View live tool at FXStreet →

Background

The Journey from
Reporter to Builder

Mauricio Carrillo Palacio — Fintech Executive and Financial Journalist, SIGMA Asia Manila 2024

I started as a financial journalist with a decade covering markets for some of the world's leading financial platforms — FXStreet, Investing.com, DailyForex, Bitcoin Magazine, SeekingAlpha, Kitco, and Nasdaq among others. Along the way I worked to establish FXStreet's technical and fundamental analysis divisions, including live coverage, video channels, the economic calendar, and the news feed — and created the Currency Forecast Sentiment Tool used by traders and institutions worldwide.

Then I crossed the line. I moved from writing about markets to building inside them — leading the Americas expansion for a global digital assets platform across several countries, navigating regulatory frameworks being written in real time, and generating multi-million dollars in deal volume through a partner network spanning 150 countries.

Today I run Witbrew, a boutique BD and financial strategy consultancy advising fintech and digital asset platforms on institutional partnerships, cross-border payment infrastructure, and global market entry. See my full professional background →

My conviction has never changed: finance should work for everyone. That means giving people, projects, startups and companies access to the financial system — not as charity, but as a functioning economic model that empowers people to participate, save, transact, and grow.

Bullish trends are not built in headlines. They are built in periods of quiet accumulation, when conviction slowly replaces speculation.

From "Bitcoin Flirts with $73K While Reality Checks In"
English
Bilingual
Spanish
Native
Catalan
Bilingual
Portuguese
Professional

Three Ways to
Work Together

01 · Partnership
BD & Institutional Partnerships

Sourcing, structuring, and closing institutional partnerships across exchanges, OTC desks, banks, family offices, and fintech operators. Full deal lifecycle from first conversation through launch and scale — including one of the first digital asset licenses secured in El Salvador.

Americas · Europe · Africa · Asia
02 · Infrastructure
Cross-Border Payment Infrastructure

Payment rail architecture, stablecoin settlement infrastructure, MSB operations, and corridor optimization. Building the layer between what regulators allow, what banks will touch, and what customers actually need — reducing settlement costs by 50% across multiple jurisdictions.

150+ Country Network
03 · Content
Financial Content & Market Intelligence

Market analysis, fintech strategy content, and thought leadership for institutional and retail audiences. Sharp, signal-rich content that works for the expert and the newcomer simultaneously — including the Currency Forecast Sentiment Tool used globally since 2010.

EN · ES · PT · CA

Contrarian investing is not about feelings. It's about filtering noise and identifying real drivers.

From "NVIDIA Presents a Rare Opportunity"

In Conversation

Mauricio Carrillo Palacio speaking at SIGMA Asia Manila 2024 — Cross-border payments and digital assets panel
2024
SIGMA Conference Manila
Speaker · Digital assets & cross-border payments
2024
SIGMA World
Featured Interview · GlobiancePay, cross-border transactions & digital asset operations · Watch →
2019
Universidad del Norte
Guest Lecturer · Digital finance & entrepreneurship
2017
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Guest Lecturer · Fintech entrepreneurship
2016
Orlando MoneyShow
Speaker · FX & market intelligence
2012
TV3 Catalunya
Featured Interview · Financial markets
2026
FXStreet
Ongoing Contributor · Market Analysis · FX · Crypto · Macro
Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Scarcity, Flexibility and Volatility
Institutional crypto analysis · 2021
FXStreet
Market Analysis & Commentary
FX · Crypto · Macro · Ongoing
DailyForex
The Elder Triple Screen Trading System
Technical analysis framework · 2020
DailyForex
Forex Chart Patterns — The Complete Guide
Market structure analysis · 2020
Newsletter
The 175-Year-Old Company That Just Made Every Crypto Skeptic's Argument Obsolete
Western Union · Stablecoins · 2026
Coming Soon

Markets, like politicians, often promise breakouts they do not deliver.

From "Bitcoin's Bullish - and Not-So-Bullish - Case"
ResearchGate
The Adoption of Social Media in Online Financial News Media
Co-authored with Laura Aymerich-Franch · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Academic Research

Available for Consulting,
Advisory & Speaking

If you are building payment infrastructure, entering new markets, or need institutional partnerships that move — let's talk. I respond within 24 hours.

Build trust before building volume.

From "The Stablecoin Playbook"

I typically respond within 24 hours.