# Manteca > The financial infrastructure API for LATAM Manteca is a financial infrastructure company that provides API-based crypto, payment, and brokerage services. It helps fintech companies and banks across Latin America launch financial products without building their own regulated infrastructure. Manteca is a financial infrastructure company that provides application programming interfaces for crypto, payments, and brokerage services. It allows fintech companies, banks, and other businesses to embed financial functionality into their own products through a single integration. Its offering is aimed at companies across Latin America seeking to launch regulated financial services without building compliance and banking infrastructure themselves. The company addresses the operational and regulatory complexity of offering financial services in multiple Latin American markets, where licensing, banking rails, and compliance requirements vary by country. Its APIs handle custody, transaction processing, and regulatory workflows such as onboarding and identity verification, allowing partner businesses to focus on their own user experience. Manteca operates as a licensed provider and manages compliance obligations on behalf of the businesses that integrate its APIs. Its product suite includes a crypto as a service API for buying, selling, and custody of digital assets, a payments API supporting regional QR-based payment methods, and a brokerage API for accessing stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and currency exchange instruments. It also offers ramp services for converting between fiat and crypto, bill payment processing, and virtual account issuance. These products are used by fintech companies, banks, and other regulated businesses building crypto, payment, and investment products for end users across the region. - Type: Company - Sector: Finance - Status: Active - Founded: 2023-11-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/manteca ## Products - [Manteca API Platform](https://thegrid.id/profiles/manteca): Manteca API Platform is a payments infrastructure and orchestration service that lets fintech companies integrate crypto, brokerage, payment, and banking services across Latin America through unified APIs. It aggregates crypto deposits and withdrawals, brokerage account onboarding, QR-based payments, fiat-crypto ramp conversion, bill payments, and virtual account issuance behind a single integration layer. The platform handles regulatory compliance, identity verification, and multi-currency settlement, and is used by businesses seeking to embed financial services without building backend infrastructure. 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