Two different paths into the same problem
Filiberto studied at Bocconi University and moved through Dentons, Banca d'Italia and PwC before co-founding Aurea Hub, a path through a law firm advising financial institutions, a central bank and a Big Four advisory practice, rather than through a software company.
Andrea Paone, co-founder and COO, holds the company's legal representation and leads its development work, combining legal accountability for the business with hands-on ownership of what actually gets built.
What a legal and regulatory background changes about how you build
Most infrastructure companies hire compliance staff after the product exists, to explain the product to regulators after the fact. Aurea Hub's founding team did the opposite: backgrounds in regulation and financial services set the platform's constraints before the first line of code, which is why the compliance layer is structural rather than a later patch.
That order also shapes how the company talks to prospective bank and payment institution clients: a conversation about licensing and supervisory expectations up front, rather than a sales conversation followed by a separate compliance review months later.
Why the team stayed small on purpose
Aurea Hub has stayed a small team relative to the scope of what it builds, deliberately. A wallet, payment and settlement platform serving banks and payment institutions does not need a large headcount to be correct; it needs the right people making the compliance and architecture decisions early, and a product built so that scaling client volume does not require scaling headcount at the same rate.
That is what "startup" still means at Aurea Hub, several products and bank and payment institution conversations in: a small team that built the compliance layer first, not a large team retrofitting it later.