SEFYC CONFERENCE – DISERTANES | BCRA
Challenges of a Financial System in Transformation
SPEAKERS
Santiago Bausili
Santiago Bausili is president of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic. He has a degree in Economics from the University of San Andrés.
His professional training was developed in international banking, where he worked 11 years for J.P. Morgan and 9 years for Deutsche Bank. He lived 17 years in New York working for these institutions. He was responsible for financing in the international capital market for private sector companies and governments in Latin America, the design of financial risk hedging strategies through derivative instruments, and the structuring of private financing. Although he participated in transactions involving clients from most Latin American countries, he had greater exposure and focus on the Andean countries of the region and the Southern Cone.
Before assuming his current position at the Central Bank, he held other positions in the public sector: he was Secretary of Finance in the Ministry of Finance / Ministry of Finance of the Nation between 2017 and 2019 and Undersecretary of Financing in the Ministry of Finance and Public Finance in 2016.
He also worked as a consultant on macroeconomic and financial issues particularly focusing on the Argentine context (2020-2023).
Before assuming his current position at the Central Bank, he held other positions in the public sector: he was Secretary of Finance in the Ministry of Finance / Ministry of Finance of the Nation between 2017 and 2019 and Undersecretary of Financing in the Ministry of Finance and Public Finance in 2016.
He also worked as a consultant on macroeconomic and financial issues particularly focusing on the Argentine context (2020-2023).
Juan Curutchet
Juan Curutchet is a lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and holds a master’s degree in Law (LL.M.) from New York University (NYU). Prior to undertaking his current position at the BCRA, Juan Curutchet served as President of Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Director of Prisma SA, President of Provincia Microcréditos SA, Vice President of Banco de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Director of Red Link SA, President of Ciudad Microempresas SA and President of the Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions (Asociación Latinoamericana de Instituciones Financieras para el Desarrollo, ALIDE). He was partner in the law firm Curutchet – Odriozola; foreign associate at Vinson & Elkins in Houston and at Howrey & Simon in Washington (United States). He was a director and is a member of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires. He is also a member of the Public Bar Association of the Federal Capital (CPACF), the San Isidro Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Previously, he was secretary general of the Assembly of Representatives of the Social Security Fund of Lawyers of Buenos Aires (CASSABA), delegate of the General Assembly of the CPACF, academic advisor for the faculty of graduates in the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Law of the UBA and secretary general of the University Federation of Buenos Aires (FUBA)
Daniel Tillard
Daniel Tillard is President of Banco Nación. He has led the entity since December 2023. He has a degree in Economics from the National University of Córdoba (UNC), with a specialization in Finance, Administration and Capital Markets. Throughout his career, he has developed a solid experience in the management of financial institutions, strategic management and fiduciary business.
He served as president of Banco de la Provincia de Córdoba for two consecutive terms (2015-2019 and 2019-2023) and previously served as director of Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, president of Provincia Bursátil S.A., director of Red Link S.A. and Alternate Director of SEDESA (Seguros de Depósitos S.A.). He worked in the non-financial public sector and in the private sector as a consultant, participating in various levels of management.
Currently, from the presidency of Banco Nación, he promotes an agenda aimed at consolidating the entity’s leadership in an increasingly competitive environment, with the aim of positioning it as a digital bank with branches, combining the best of innovation, history and territorial presence.
Diego Rivas
Mr. Rivas holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from UADE, a Master’s Degree in Finance (CEMA), PED Business Program (IMD and Universidad Austral), Senior Management Program (San Andrés) and Advance Risk Management (Wharton School of Pennsylvania).
He has been linked to the bank since 1987 to date. He has served as Credit Card VP (1987-1992), Bond Trader (1992-1998), Head of Money Markets (1998-2001), Treasurer (2001-2001), Financial Risk Manager (2002-2004), Planning Manager (2004-2007), CFO of Regional Cards (2008-2014) and CEO of Compañía Financiera Argentina until November 2015, from there until 2021 he was the CRO of Banco Galicia, from 2021 to May 2024 CFO and until August 2025 Managing Director Financial Banking. He currently fulfills the role of CEO of Banco Galicia.
Jorge Mogrovejo González
President of the Association of Banking Supervisors of the Americas (ASBA).
Deputy Superintendent of Banking and Microfinance of the Superintendence of Banking and Insurance of Peru.
Economist and Lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Master’s Degree in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University in New York (USA). He has been an official of the Superintendence of Banking, Insurance and AFPs for more than 25 years. He was President of the Deposit Insurance Fund of Peru between 2014 and 2016. He worked for two years (2012-2013) at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) at the Financial Stability Institute in Basel, Switzerland. Member of the Board of Directors of the Superintendence of the Securities Market between 2010 and 2012.
Certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) as Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR)
Jermy Prenio
Jermy Prenio is a Senior Advisor at the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) of the Bank for International Settlements, which he joined in 2016. Participates in the management of the ISF outreach programme for financial supervisors. He collaborates on FSI publications, mainly on topics related to financial and supervisory technology, and cybersecurity. In addition, it produces policy-related documents for the ISF Connect platform. It also manages activities related to the Informal Supervisory Technology Network (ISN) and coordinates the ISF’s activities related to financial inclusion. Previously, he was Deputy Director of Regulatory Affairs at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for formulating the global banking sector’s outlook on international regulatory issues. In addition, he served as a regulator in the Philippines, where he led the Basel II Implementation Working Group.
Giuseppe Siani
Giuseppe Siani has been Head of the Directorate General for Financial Supervision and Regulation of the Bank of Italy since 2021. In this capacity, he has been an alternate member of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the Standing Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory Cooperation of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) since 2021. In addition, he has been a voting member of the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Directors of the European Banking Authority (EBA) since 2025. After the creation of the SSM, he joined the European Central Bank (ECB) as Deputy Director-General for Microprudential Supervision IV, where he played a leading role in the development of the horizontal and specialized functions of the SSM. Previously, he held various positions of increasing responsibility at the Bank of Italy, where he was appointed Head of the International Regulation Division in 2012. He also worked in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Internal Market between 2005 and 2009, where he participated in the development of the European Union’s (EU) banking policy and in the reform following the great financial crisis. In 2004, he was a member of the Extended Secretariat of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), which participated in the drafting of the BCBS Revised International Capital Framework (Basel II). Over the years, he also served in various roles on FSB, BCBS, and EU committees, and chaired BCBS working groups that contributed to Basel III reforms.
Marco Antonio Guimarães Verrone
Marco Antônio Guimarães is currently Deputy Head of the Department of Strategic Management and Specialized Supervision of the Central Bank of Brazil. He is in charge of the strategic planning of the prudential supervision area and technological management applied to the supervision of banks and other financial institutions. He also coordinates the implementation of strategies to use artificial intelligence in supervision processes.
Claudia Stachuk
Deputy General Manager of Supervision and Monitoring. With a career of more than 30 years at the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic, he has extensive experience in comprehensive supervision of financial and non-financial institutions.
Leads teams, assuming roles such as: “Promoter / Coordinator of working groups” for the development of topics of interest for supervision; “Active participant” in the qualification process by the European Banking Authority (EBA) as an Equivalent Supervisor in this area; “Active Mentor/Partner” of the current Strategic Oversight Plan. Actively participates in the internal supervisory training program, both in the role of organizer and instructor. He is also a member of the group of instructors of the “Specialization in Central Banking” program.
In the external field, he has also participated as: i) Instructor in the ASBA framework of the Seminar Evaluation of internal control with a risk-based supervisory approach – Loan and Treasury Cycles. and ii) Instructor within the framework of ABAPPRA – Training Program. Taught on several occasions in different Argentine provinces.
Francisco Calcagno
Public Accountant from the University of Buenos Aires and diploma in prevention of money laundering from the UNER.
Director of Economic Crime Investigations of the Ministry of Security of the Nation, with responsibility for the planning of activities to investigate economic crimes, money laundering, counterfeiting of currency, smuggling and infringements of trademark regulations. In charge of the National Central Office (OCN Argentina) against counterfeiting of currency.
Franco Pilnik
Franco Pilnik, Lawyer (UNC); Postgraduate Master’s Degree in Cybercrime, UIC Catalonia; Specialist in Economic Criminal Law (UBP); Investigating Prosecutor of the Cybercrime Prosecutor’s Office of Córdoba, Teacher and author of publications on computer crime.
Julio Conte-Grand
Julio Marcelo Conte-Grand is Attorney General before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Province of Buenos Aires.
He is a lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires (1983). He is a member of the Federal Council of Prosecutors, Prosecutors, Defenders and General Advisors of the Argentine Republic and the Federal Council of Criminal Policy of the Argentine Republic. In the public sphere, he served as Legal and Technical Secretary of the Province of Buenos Aires, Attorney General of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and member of the Buenos Aires Council of the Magistracy. He also represented the Province of Buenos Aires in the Federal Forum of Councils of the Magistracy and Trial Juries of the Argentine Republic (FOFECMA).
In the academic field, he is an ordinary professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina and a professor of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Universidad Austral and the UCA. He is also a full member of the Argentine Association of Comparative Law, and has been director and member of editorial boards of legal publications.
Author of numerous books, articles and specialized works, he has received the recognition of the Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA) and was decorated by His Holiness John Paul II with the Order of St. Gregory the Great.
Daniel Domínguez
Héctor D. Domínguez is a national public accountant with a degree in Business Administration from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and a Senior Technician in Foreign Trade from the Banco de Boston Foundation. He was in charge of the General Deputy Manager of Supervision and Monitoring of the SEFyC. Prior to joining the BCRA, he developed professional activities related to banking supervision at Estudio Becher y Asociados (BDO) and Estudio Villagarcía y Asociados (PKF).
He was the Chair of the Training Committee in ASBA (Association of Supervisors of Banks of the Americas) and represented the BCRA/SEFyC before the SIG (Standards Implementation Group) of the Basel Committee from 2007 to 2012. Additionally, he gave lectures in Argentina and abroad on issues related to banking supervision. He was an ad-honorem teaching assistant in the subjects of Financial Administration and Administrative Systems in the School of Economic Sciences of Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Alejandro Melhem
Alejandro Melhem is Senior Vice President of Fintech Hispanic Latin America at Mercado Pago (Mercado Libre), where he leads the business in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay. With more than 9 years of experience in the company, he has held various leadership positions, driving the expansion and consolidation of the payment platform in the region.
Agustín Danza
Agustín Danza is CEO of Revolut Argentina, where he leads the expansion of one of the most innovative fintechs in the world. With more than two decades of experience in financial services, technology, and strategy, he has built his career at the intersection of innovation, strategy, and growth.
Prior to joining Revolut, he led Nowports Capital, the financial arm of Nowports, where he drove financing solutions that transformed international trade in the region. Previously, as Head of Banking & Payments at Mercado Pago, he designed and executed the digital banking strategy for millions of users throughout Latin America. During his tenure, Mercado Pago’s digital account doubled its user base, launched pioneering products in savings, investments, and crypto, and reached profitability for the first time. He also held management roles at Nubank, designing and scaling operations in Argentina and Brazil.
Agustín began his career at Bain & Company, where he spent 8 years advising global leaders in finance, retail and private equity. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School (2012) and a degree in Business Administration from UBA. Additionally, he was recognized as Under-40 Leader in Business in Sports (2018).
Pablo Quirno
Pablo is Managing Director of Ualá Argentina. With solid financial experience both nationally and internationally, he leads and supervises Ualá’s operations in the country. With studies in Business Administration at the University of San Andrés and the Wharton School in Philadelphia, United States, Quirno began his career in investment banking in the area of mergers and acquisitions for Citi from NY. Prior to joining Ualá, he was Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the digital bank Brubank. Previously, he co-founded the investment fund Ventus Capital Partners and worked in the national public administration advising on foreign investment in the Presidency and was undersecretary of international economic relations for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship.
Juan Pedro Cantera Sención
Superintendent of Financial Services of the Central Bank of Uruguay since 2012.
Previously – Intendant of Financial Supervision (2009 – 2012) in charge of the supervision of all financial markets, Manager of the Area of Study and Regulation of the Financial System (2002 – 2009).
Former President of ASBA, (Association of Banking Supervisors of the Americas). Period 2015-2018.
Former Director of ASBA representing the countries of the Southern Cone Region of America.
Period 2018-2022.
Public Accountant – Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay Master’s Degree in Banking Management – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Angelo Duarte
Angelo Duarte obtained his PhD in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). He joined the Central Bank of Brazil in 1998 and served as Head of the Department of Competition and Financial Market Structure. He currently holds the position of Head of Office of the Director of Organization of the Financial System. He also worked at the Ministry of Finance and was a Visiting Economist at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) between 2013 and 2016.
Claudia Sotelo Videla
Commercial Engineer with a mention in Administration from the University of Chile and Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Currently, she serves as Head of the Financial Innovation Center of the Financial Market Commission. Chair of the Executive Committee of FintechLac and member of the Committee for the Setting of Limits on Interchange Fees. Her professional career includes having been Head of the Technological Observatory of the Central Bank of Chile, Consultant in Chile-Capital and having held executive positions at the Santiago Stock Exchange and at CCLV Counterparty Central. Previously, she was Advisor to the Manager of the Financial Operations Division of the Central Bank of Chile and worked at the former Superintendence of Securities and Insurance.
Alejandra Sanguinetti
Bachelor’s degree in International Trade (UADE) and Master’s degree in Finance (UTDT). He currently serves as Deputy General Manager of Payment Methods. Previously Manager of Operations with Securities and Foreign Exchange and Manager of External Operations.
Roy Gava
Roy Gava is Professor of Business and Public Policy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research works address the comparative analysis of public policies, financial regulation and corporate responsibility. He obtained his PhD in political science at the University of Geneva, where he was also an adjunct professor at the Centre for Banking and Financial Law. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Center for Legal Data Science at the University of Zurich. He is co-founder of the association “Global Enforcement in the Financial Industry”, an international platform that promotes empirical research on administrative sanctions in the Financial sector.
Sandra Lucia de Assis Castro
Sandra Lucia de Assis Castro has a degree in Administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), with a specialization in Controllership. He joined the Central Bank of Brazil in July 1998 and has been working for 26 years in the area of auditing, accumulating extensive experience in inspection activities, both in the execution and planning of actions, in conducting the establishment of administrative sanctioning processes and in advising on the application of resolution regimes.
Daniel Robledo
Daniel Robledo is a lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and holds a Master’s degree in Administrative Law and Public Administration (UBA).
In 2004 he joined the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic, in the legal advice service. In 2011 he was appointed Compliance Officer before the UIF and since then he has been a member of the country’s delegations to the FATF-FATF and GAFILAT. He is an Expert Evaluator on systems for the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing by GAFILAT and has twice been a country evaluator for FATF and GAFILAT. He currently participates as a lead reviewer in the FATF International Cooperation Group (ICRG) for the Americas. Since 2014 he has served as Deputy General Manager of Compliance and Control.
He is the author of a book on the subject of the panel and publications in academic journals in Argentina on monetary, financial, prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism, as well as administrative and constitutional law.
Rui Pinto
Rui Pinto has been a Director of the Bank of Portugal (BdP) since December 2022. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the Board of Supervisors of the European Banking Authority (EBA).
He also represents the BdP on the Executive Committee of the Portuguese Investor Guarantee Fund and on the Advisory Board of the Securities Market Commission (CMVM), the supervisory authority on securities and capital markets in Portugal. From 2016 to 2022, he was Director of the CMVM and, from 2019 to 2022, President of the Investor Compensation System (SII).
Previously, from 2008, he held various positions in the Department of Prudential Supervision of the BdP, where he held the position of Deputy Chief. He graduated in Business Administration and Management from the Lisbon School of Business and Economics of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He also holds Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) certification. He participated in the Global Senior Management Program at IE University’s School of Business and at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
Mario López
Mario López is president of the Argentine Fintech Chamber and co-founder of Poincenot, a technology studio focused on promoting the development of digital businesses of traditional financial institutions and fintechs. With a degree in Systems and an MBA from the Universidad del Salvador/Deusto, he has more than 25 years of experience in the financial market in Argentina, Chile and Mexico, where he worked for Banco Santander and in the management of ventures and consultancies for the development of innovation in digital banking.
Juan Parma
Juan was born in the city of La Plata in 1973, where he completed his studies, graduating in 1996 with a degree in Business Administration from the National University of La Plata. In 1998 he completed a master’s degree in Finance oriented to Banks at the University of CEMA. He began his professional career as an intern in 1996 in the commercial area of Cervecería Quilmes and in 1997 he joined Banco Roberts, which that same year became HSBC, where he has worked in different businesses, holding various management positions in Retail and Wealth Management, Corporate Banking, Asset Management and Insurance, living in several countries such as Argentina, Panama, Brazil and Mexico.
He was Director of Individual Banking in Argentina, also serving as Director of Banelco and Visa and leading the acquisition and integration of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. He was Director of Individual Banking in Brazil, was in charge of the Retail and Wealth Management operation in Mexico and Latin America, later expanding his responsibility to Regional Director of Wealth and Personal Banking (WPB) Americas, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay. In 2023 he added to his regional responsibility that of President and CEO of HSBC Argentina, also with responsibility for the bank in Uruguay, until its sale to Banco Galicia at the end of 2024. Since April 2025 he has served as General Manager of Banco Macro.
Matheus Rauber
Matheus Rauber is Division Chief in the Financial System Regulation Department of the Central Bank of Brazil.
He has extensive experience in the regulatory field. He was part of the team in charge of the regulation of financial technology (fintech) companies and the regulatory sandbox. He currently leads the team responsible for coordinating the implementation of Open Finance in Brazil.