NewsMacroMUNDI Secures up to $150 Million Financing Facility from Column to Scale Mexico-U.S. Trade Finance

MUNDI Secures up to $150 Million Financing Facility from Column to Scale Mexico-U.S. Trade Finance

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Key Takeaways

  • Column’s new facility is its first financing partnership with a trade-finance-focused FinTech in Mexico.
  • The financing package gives MUNDI access to up to $150 million and increases its receivables portfolio capacity to as much as $325 million.
  • The partnership is aimed at improving dollar-denominated working capital for Mexican exporters and their supply chains.
  • The announcement comes as the USMCA review creates uncertainty for cross-border trade between the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
  • MUNDI said the additional funding will also help it develop and launch new products.
MUNDI Secures up to $150 Million Financing Facility from Column to Scale Mexico-U.S. Trade Finance

MUNDI, the FinTech company powering export growth for Mexican firms and their supply chains, has announced the completion of a new financing facility for up to $150 million from Column, a nationally chartered bank that provides regulated financial infrastructure for technology companies. The agreement marks Column's first financing partnership with a trade-finance-focused FinTech in Mexico and pairs MUNDI's export financing business with Column's regulated banking platform.

The facility strengthens MUNDI's funding capacity as the company continues to scale its trade finance offering for businesses across Mexico, and it arrives at a moment when Mexican businesspeople face uncertainty around the terms of cross-border trade under the ongoing USMCA review — the re-examination of the trilateral trade pact that governs commerce among the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The new facility adds to MUNDI's existing credit lines and, together with other recent debt facility renewals, gives the company the capacity to grow its receivables portfolio (the export invoices underlying its financing business) to up to $325 million — more than double its previous capacity.

The partnership targets a long-standing structural gap in Mexico's export economy. Mexican exporters have historically faced limited access to dollar-denominated financing despite the country's growing role in North American trade: U.S. imports from Mexico reached $534.3 billion in 2025, with momentum continuing into 2026. Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which form the backbone of Mexico's economy, produce less than 7% of the country's exports, in part because formal financing remains underused — supplier financing is the most common source for Mexican companies, while financing from foreign-domiciled banks remains marginal.

When financing does reach Mexican companies, the impact is significant: 7x more investment, 6x more revenue, 5x more production, and 4x more employment. This is the gap MUNDI was built to close, and the partnership with Column is intended to accelerate growth in Mexico-U.S. trade finance by providing working capital solutions tailored to the realities of cross-border commerce. MUNDI described the arrangement as more than a capital injection, pointing to the speed and flexibility of Column's platform as core benefits — with funding drawn through a regulated U.S. banking infrastructure rather than a conventional single-loan structure.

"This partnership isn't just about more capital, it's about a fundamentally faster and more flexible way to fund Mexican exporters and their supply chain," said Martin Pustilnick, co-Founder and CEO of MUNDI. "Column's platform lets us draw funding daily, in minutes. At a time when the rules of trade between Mexico and the U.S. are being renegotiated, having the capital and the speed to back our clients isn't a nice-to-have, it's essential. This partnership more than doubles our capacity to grow and gives us room to bring new products to market."

"Cross-border trade is essential to the North American economy, and we're proud to put Column's powerful banking infrastructure to work connecting exporters with dollar funding," said Brian Fishbein, Chief Investment Officer at Column. "MUNDI is a champion of Mexican trade. Today's partnership will scale their capacity to quickly deploy reliable capital to Mexican exporters and supply chains, and build economic dynamism across North America."

According to the announcement, access to fast, flexible, dollar-denominated financing is becoming a decisive factor in Mexican exporters' ability to compete and grow, particularly as the terms of North American trade are renegotiated under the USMCA review. For exporters and their supply chains, working capital constraints can mean the difference between capturing new international demand and losing it to better-financed competitors.

With the new facility in place, MUNDI says it is positioned to keep expanding access to that capital for a growing base of Mexican exporters and their supply chains, while also using its added capacity to develop and bring new products to market in the months ahead.