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Banco Central do Brasil (BCB)

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What's New in Payments

Banco Central do Brasil names CBDC project partners

By Tom Phillips • 9 March 2022 • Updated 9 March 2022 • nfcw.com

The Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) has named the partner organisations that will support the next phase of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) project... More


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Facebook relaunches WhatsApp peer to peer payments in Brazil

By Tom Phillips • 6 May 2021 • Updated 10 May 2021 • nfcw.com
Facebook WhatsApp peer to peer payments on phone Brazil

WhatsApp users in Brazil can now send money to friends, family and other contacts by attaching a payment to a chat “just as you would attach a photo or video” and validating the transfer with a PIN or their device’s biometrics functionality... More


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Brazil begins rollout of Pix national instant payments platform

By Tom Phillips • 6 November 2020 • Updated 6 November 2020 • nfcw.com

Pix, Brazil’s instant payment scheme, has gone live in a “restricted operation phase” prior to full implementation later this month, the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) has revealed... More


What's New in Payments

Brazil sets up central bank digital currency group

By Tom Phillips • 26 August 2020 • Updated 26 August 2020 • nfcw.com

The Banco Central do Brasil has formed a study group to evaluate the benefits and challenges of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the country... More


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Central bank blocks WhatsApp payments in Brazil

By Sarah Clark • 24 June 2020 • nfcw.com
Banco Central do Brasil logo

Brazil’s central bank has “ordered Visa and Mastercard to suspend the start of activities or immediately stop using the WhatsApp application to initiate payments and transfers”... More


What's New in Payments

Brazil to launch national instant payments system

By Sarah Clark • 25 February 2020 • nfcw.com
Brazilian Instant Payment Scheme (PIX) logo

Brazil’s central bank will turn on a national instant payments network in November that will allow consumers to make payments and transfers “in a few seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including between accounts of different institutions” using QR codes, NFC, their mobile phone number, email address or taxpayer ID... More


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