The position of CEO Andre Brandao – and his plan to rationalize the bank's cost base – are both surrounded in doubt.

Daniel Darahem has returned from Asia to take the reins of JPMorgan’s Brazilian business. He predicts that the coming decade will witness transformation at a speed never seen before for both the bank and the country.

Brazil’s fintechs and digital challenger banks are making more ground than traditional firms with the central bank’s new payments system.

Brazil’s richest man leaves behind privately held banking empire. Antagonism between sons could lead to a power struggle

Itaú Unibanco continues to outperform its peers in Brazilian banking, but its traditional competitors aren’t the real problem.

Is a slew of pulled deals really a sign of a healthy IPO market?

UBS’s strategy of creating emerging markets growth through partnerships is writ large in its joint venture with Banco do Brasil. Can the new entity become more than the sum of its parts?

Brazil’s central bank launches a free instant-payments tool.

Banco Inter’s chief executive João Vitor Menin is a banking revolutionary. His vision of the bank’s future is a super app, supporting both e-commerce and financial services. He is refreshingly fearless about upsetting the established order.

The BRICS economies, which between them represent 40% of the world population and 32% of its GDP, are a powerful force for the private banking industry as their economic engines drive wealth creation. But they are all distinct markets with their own unique opportunities and challenges.

The former president of Brazil’s central bank spent six months cooling off before joining Credit Suisse.

In stark contrast to previous periods of crisis, Brazil’s private-sector banks have been growing market share this year as the public banks have retrenched. This should translate to a busy deal pipeline as they look to refinance.

Credit Suisse has hired several big guns in the battle for the banking market in Brazil. Chief among them is Ilan Goldfajn, ex president of the central bank of Brazil.

Brazil’s largest fintech has 5% market share and now poses strategic challenge to market leaders.

Nubank’s acquisition of Easynvest this month is just one example of how the financial market in Brazil is developing at a dizzying speed.

Brazilian bank set to take in US firm’s domestic bankers and clients.

The penny is finally dropping – and bankers in Brazil appear to be taking deforestation in the Amazon seriously.

The markets have been very relaxed about emerging markets adopting quantitative easing – and that, in itself, could become a problem.

The awkward truce in Brazil between XP Inc and Itaú broke down in a very public way in June.

Social distancing and government payments are turbo-charging digital bank’s growth.

Collapse in Brazilian equities places a question mark over recent growth in retail investment.

A due-diligence downside to working from home.

The bank reports record profits, loan growth and no advance provisioning while Bradesco and Itaú focus on risks ahead.

When corporates needed access to credit as the Covid-19 crisis ravaged Brazil’s markets, the big banks baulked or raised their costs dramatically. Is this the price of such a consolidated market, one that also provides much-needed stability in times of turmoil?

Risk that high leverage in global corporates could spark 'new global financial crisis'.

Previous crises led to consolidated, profitable sector that should be able to weather coming storm.

It might be too much to say the country was bouncing back before Covid-19 struck, but it was beginning to look a bit better. Not now though.

The economic fallout from the virus is beginning to impact regional currencies and growth forecasts.

Brazil’s changing macroeconomic environment is shaking up the investment industry – and there has been no bigger winner than XP Inc. In his first post-IPO interview with the international media, CEO Guilherme Benchimol explains the firm’s competitive edge over banks.

The gravitational pull of Latin America on Santander has resulted in the move to appoint Santander Brasil CEO Sergio Rial to the bank’s board as executive director.