Overview
- The free Zócalo concert headlined by Andrea Bocelli, staged Saturday, drew about 300,000 people in what outlets called the country’s largest classical-music event, a count confirmed by Mexico City leader Claudia Sheinbaum.
- Banco Plata organized the show as its public presentation as a bank in Mexico after obtaining a banca múltiple license that allows it to offer a wider set of regulated services.
- The program blended opera with cumbia and pop as Bocelli performed with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería alongside Los Ángeles Azules, Ximena Sariñana and Larisa Martínez.
- Sponsorship kept the event free and open in the capital’s main civic square, bringing a style often confined to ticketed halls to a broad public audience.
- Banco Plata reports rapid growth with a $5 billion valuation, 3.5 million active card customers and a 600-developer tech team, and says new deposit and savings products are coming.