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The bank, which is currently the third largest financial institution in Brazil, confirmed that it had found a partner to enter the cryptocurrency custody business, including stablecoins. Bradesco’s head of…
According to local media, the use of cryptocurrency for illicit purposes has skyrocketed in Brazil, with criminal groups leveraging it for money laundering purposes. The number reached 71 million reais…
The institution issued a ban on Banco Topazio’s ability to conduct foreign purchases and sales of cryptocurrency assets for two years after detecting irregularities in the due diligence processes for…
Robin Brooks, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and former Chief FX Strategist at Goldman Sachs, believes the Brazilian Real is poised to grow, as the currency’s value has been…
The Central Bank of Brazil published Resolution No. 561, which imposed a blanket ban on the use of cryptocurrency assets, such as bitcoin and stablecoins, for entities providing international payment…
Brazilian stock exchange B3 is launching six “Event Contracts” today, including instruments tied to bitcoin price movements. The country’s first federally regulated prediction market comes three days after the National…
According to data released by the Central Bank of Brazil, stablecoin purchases comprised $6.8 billion of the $6.9 billion in cryptocurrency purchased abroad by Brazilians during Q1. This represents an…
Itau Unibanco, through its VC arm Itau Ventures, has made an undisclosed investment in Minter, a company that installs mobile data centers and bitcoin mining operations across Brazil. Minter’s approach…
The adoption of stablecoins in Brazil continues to grow, now reaching beyond the cryptocurrency sector. The main point behind this rise in adoption across several industries is that stablecoin payments…
The arrests of the two singers and others were part of Operation Narco Fluxo, a high-level operation executed by the Brazilian Federal Police across several states. The flows intermediated using…