Nu Bank Mexico: The Card That Pays Our Bills (and the 13% Savings Trick)

mr@mindfultravellers.ca (Mr. & Ms. Mindful Travellers) — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

One of the questions we get most often from fellow Canadians spending time in Mexico: “How do you handle banking down there?” Our answer these days is a single app with a purple card: Nu (better known as Nubank elsewhere in Latin America).

It’s the account that quietly pays our electricity and internet bills every month, earns us a genuinely remarkable savings rate, and never charges us a peso in annual fees. Here’s how we use it — and the honest answer about what our invitation link does for you.

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Nu Bank Mexico: The Card That Pays Our Bills (and the 13% Savings Trick)