Payments & Card Issuance, Sales & Growth

Yanina Castiñeira

Precision in the numbers. Trust in the relationship. Global by experience.

17 years across cardspaymentsprocessinginfrastructure, closing long-term deals and the relationships that outlast them, across Europe, the Americas and Asia.

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Yanina Castiñeira

I currently lead Key Accounts across the UK&I market and Global Strategic Deals at Thales, working with issuers and processors to bring physical card programs to market faster, across borders.

Before that, close to two decades building the same kind of relationships across different markets, currencies and time zones, always prioritizing long-term trust over quick wins.

If this resonates, say hi. I'd genuinely love to hear what you're working on too.

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Year-over-year account growth, sustained across multiple portfolios
$0M+
Portfolio and pipeline managed, spanning issuer and processor accounts
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Countries spanned by each global agreement I've closed

Card, payments and processing deals are technical, slow-moving, and long-term by nature. What makes them close, and stay closed, isn't the pitch. It's the relationship underneath it.

Seventeen years on the ground, not remote coverage, but direct relationships with issuers, processors and banks in each market.

GLOBAL
Multiple global agreements closed, each spanning 15+ countries, including the US, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong.

On top of that, market-specific deals closed directly in:

UKUnited Kingdom
IEIreland
ESSpain
PTPortugal
ILIsrael
FRFrance
BRBrazil
ARArgentina
CLChile
UYUruguay
PYParaguay
MXMexico

Curious and active since day one. The same instinct that's taken me from one payments market to the next has taken me from one country to the next.

Lived in, in order:

🇦🇷 Buenos Aires
Born & raised
→
🇬🇧 London
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🇮🇹 Turin
→
🇪🇸 Madrid
→
🇬🇧 London
🇦🇷 Argentine by birth
🇮🇹 Italian citizen
A third, in progress
Certified & competitive
🍷 WSET Level 2, Wines
🤿 PADI Advanced
🩺 CPR Certified
🏋️ Hyrox
🏃‍♀️ Marathon
Currently curious about
Psychology
Neuroplasticity
Coffee
Perfume
+ more coming

Four countries, three passports, and a habit of turning curiosity into a certificate: showing up, and staying that way.