Pismo, the nextgen banking and payment services platform, has announced the 
arrival of Vishal Dalal as CEO for the United States, Europe and Asia. Vishal 
will head up Pismo's international expansion. One of the world's leading 
specialists in banking technology, Vishal was a partner at McKinsey and 
previously worked as an executive at various renowned banks like Citi and 
Barclays in Asia, Africa and the UK.

"I decided to join the team at Pismo because the company has the right 
combination of a pure multicloud product and a cohesive corporate culture. 
Pismo has an innovative product that really delivers value to its customers, 
and it has the right culture to allow the company to achieve its most ambitious 
goals," said Vishal. "Pismo has developed pure cloud applications that have a 
real impact and this is a competitive advantage that I haven't seen anywhere 
else. And it's already proved to be robust and capable of meeting the needs of 
big banks. All of this together means we're ready to make a global impact."

With customers like Itaú Bank (the largest retail bank) and BTG Pactual (the 
largest investment bank), Pismo has been revolutionizing the digital payments 
market through a PaaS (platform as a service) system with a range of services 
that includes processing for card issuing, digital accounts, marketplace 
management and other nextgen payment solutions.

According to Vishal, Pismo's platform is way ahead of anything currently on the 
market. Most banks are working with obsolete solutions. The Pismo platform 
allows faster, safer and more modern digital transactions in various segments. 
"In the last month, we registered over 2.5 billion API requests. By way of 
comparison, total Open Banking requests in the United Kingdom came to 690 
million that month," said Vishal. 

For Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo, Vishal's arrival marks a turning point for the 
company. "Vishal's international perspective and experience will be fundamental 
for expanding our international presence and accelerating our journey so we can 
become the world's leading banking and payments platform. We had been reading 
Vishal's texts on banking modernization for some time. When we started thinking 
about international expansion, his was the first name that came to mind."

Contact – fabricia.rosa@maquinacw.com

SOURCE  Pismo