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Brazilian Retailers Can Lose the Sale Even After Shoppers Enter the Store

October 19, 2026
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Nubank Alum Launches Decade to Give Money an AI Copilot
Investments // October 05, 2026

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Decade’s Vitor Olivier Vitor Olivier spent years building the infrastructure behind Nubank, the Brazilian digital bank that gave roughly 100 million people a cheaper, simpler way to handle everyday transactions. Now he is going after the part of financial life...

Ripple Expands in Brazil as Coinbase Pushes Back on Stablecoin Taxes
Cryptocurrency // September 30, 2026

Brazilian financial market infrastructure firm CSD BR partnered with blockchain solution provider Ripple to use the XRP Ledger blockchain as an additional layer for recording and auditing financial assets, Ripple said in a Tuesday (Jan. 29) press release. The project marks the first phase of...

AI Moves Into Brazil’s Everyday Shopping Journey
Artificial Intelligence // September 16, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With Gustavo Carvalho of Visa Brazil  Brazil has become one of the clearest tests of what happens when digital shopping ceases to occupy a separate corner of commerce and becomes indispensable to everyday interactions. The country’s consumers now average 67...

ECB Eyes Instant Payment Link to Brazil’s Pix
Partnerships // September 04, 2026

The European Central Bank (ECB) is exploring a potential interlinking between its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) platform and the Central Bank of Brazil’s Pix platform, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 3). The ECB said this in response to Reuters’ inquiry about a claim by unnamed sources that the two central...

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Brazilian Retailers Can Lose the Sale Even After Shoppers Enter the Store

October 19, 2026
The shopper standing in a Brazilian store may be looking at merchandise on the shelf, but the merchant no longer has that shopper to itself. PYMNTS Intelligence’s August 2026 “Global Digital Shopping Index: Brazil Playbook,” produced in collaboration with Visa Acceptance Solutions, found that 51% of Brazilian in-store shoppers used a mobile device to compare […]

AI Moves Into Brazil’s Everyday Shopping Journey

September 16, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Gustavo Carvalho of Visa Brazil  Brazil has become one of the clearest tests of what happens when digital shopping ceases to occupy a separate...

Brazil Treats Minority AI Stakes as Major Competition Signals

August 25, 2026
Watch more: TechReg Talks With Marcela Mattiuzzo of VMCA Advogados The defining antitrust question of the artificial intelligence era may be less about how aggressively regulators intervene than how long...

PicPay Takes Its Credit Strategy to Wall Street With US IPO

February 02, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation with PicPay’s Eduardo Chedid PicPay’s entry into U.S. public markets last week was not just about ringing the NASDAQ opening bell. It was a statement about...

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Ripple Expands in Brazil as Coinbase Pushes Back on Stablecoin Taxes

September 30, 2026
Brazilian financial market infrastructure firm CSD BR partnered with blockchain solution provider Ripple to use the XRP Ledger blockchain as an additional layer for recording and auditing financial assets, Ripple said in a Tuesday (Jan. 29) press release. The project marks the first phase of a strategic partnership that brings together CSD BR’s regulated infrastructure […]

ECB Eyes Instant Payment Link to Brazil’s Pix

September 04, 2026
The European Central Bank (ECB) is exploring a potential interlinking between its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) platform and the Central Bank of Brazil’s Pix platform, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 3). The ECB said this...

Ant International Secures Payment Institution License to Expand Capabilities in Brazil

September 04, 2026
Ant International, a global provider of digital payment, digitization and financial artificial intelligence (FinAI) solutions, has received a Payment Institution (PI) license from the Central Bank of Brazil, the company said in a...

Ebanx Expands Leadership Team to Put Execs Closer to Merchants

August 17, 2026
Brazil-based payments platform Ebanx has announced what it calls a “significant” leadership team expansion. The new appointments are part of a strategy to have executive leadership placed close to the company’s merchants’...