Daniel Cortés

Daniel focuses on the financial services regulatory industry.

Before joining White & Case, Daniel worked as a banking and finance associate at a prestigious law firm in Mexico City where he advised and aided global and local financial groups, banking institutions, brokerage firms, fintech companies, popular financial companies, and payments system participants on its authorization and registration procedures held before Mexican financial authorities. 

Prior to that, Daniel was part of the independent compliance risk management team of one of the largest banks in Mexico where he supervised the fulfilment of bank´s obligations regarding the rendering of digital services.

Additionally, Daniel collaborated in the Mexican public sector at the National Banking and Securities Commission, specifically in the Financial Authorizations General Division, reviewing and addressing a significant number of authorization requests filed by financial entities. Afterwards, he was part of Commission’s Normativity General Division, where he prepared and drafted General Provisions for banking and fintech companies.

His experience allows him to offer a unique insight to financial entities in regulated procedures and the compliance of its ongoing obligations.