OKTO PAYMENTS has appointed Marcos Techera as General Manager for Latin America.
OKTO PAYMENTS, a next-generation payment services provider built for the most complex and demanding e-commerce sectors, has appointed Marcos Techera as General Manager for Latin America. Techera will lead the Group's operations and commercial growth throughout Latin America, working closely with OKTO's local leadership in Brazil, South America, and North America.
The appointment comes at a crucial time for OKTO PAYMENTS in Latin America, where the company has built local payment infrastructures, expertise in compliance and regulation in each market, treasury and liquidity management, and national and international settlement. Techera's focus will be on further enhancing the company's infrastructure and capabilities, translating them into strong commercial performance for merchants, while also expanding further in Latin America.
Techera brings over 15 years of executive leadership experience in fintech, global payments infrastructure, and cross-border solutions for high-volume ecosystems. He joins from OneKey Payments, where he served as global CEO, and previously as Chief Operating Officer of Directa24/AstroPay, driving operational scalability and market expansion across the region. A Computer Systems Engineer by training, he combines deep technical knowledge in payments and routing optimization with a proven track record of scaling payment networks in emerging markets.
This combination is intentional. In Latin America, business outcomes depend as much on how a transaction is routed and settled locally as on the strength of the business relationship—a distinction that often goes unnoticed in a presentation but is crucial in production.
“Marcos has experience in payments in this region from two perspectives: the engineering of how money actually moves and the business reality of what merchants need from a provider. Few people in this market understand both sides so deeply. We have spent years building local infrastructure throughout Latin America, and with Marcos joining us, we will leverage that foundation and transform it into even greater value for the merchants who depend on us,” said Filippos Antonopoulos, founder and CEO of OKTO PAYMENTS.
“OKTO has already done the hardest part. Local licenses, local infrastructure, relationships with local banks in each market… this takes years, and there are no shortcuts. What this provides is the ability to compete in aspects that are difficult to copy: approval rates, service costs, settlement speed, control over money. It also requires people who know these markets inside out, and OKTO has built this talented team market by market, along with the infrastructure. My focus is on leveraging both factors and transforming them into measurable business performance for our business partners,” commented Marcos Techera, General Manager of OKTO PAYMENTS for Latin America.
OKTO PAYMENTS operates the payment infrastructure for over 40 leading international and local companies in Latin America, with an annual volume exceeding €17 billion, combining instant inbound and outbound payments on domestic networks with treasury, liquidity management, and settlement in a single layer. Regional businesses encompass iGaming and betting, foreign exchange and trading, digital content and the creative economy, as well as other high-volume e-commerce segments.
About OKTO PAYMENTS
OKTO PAYMENTS is the next-generation payment service provider – AI-native, precision-engineered, and relentlessly obsessed with merchants.
Created for merchants operating in the most complex and demanding e-commerce sectors, our platform goes far beyond transaction processing. We offer solutions for scalability, compliance, and performance — with an unwavering focus: generating results that drive merchant growth.
From payments and banking services to treasury and settlement, we design the financial infrastructure that gives our partners a competitive edge. The result? Faster integration, smarter operations, and resilient real-time performance.
We enable merchants to innovate, transforming routine transaction payments into true differentiators that create seamless, personalized payment experiences for their customers. Our AI-native innovation leverages data and insights to inform every decision, while our proprietary, in-house engineering ensures precision and control. Combined with strong, trust-based relationships worldwide, we are redefining what it means to build, scale, and win in the complex and demanding world of digital commerce.
