Brazil’s Pix on the spot fee system has change into a central problem in that nation’s upcoming presidential election.

President Jair Bolsonaro is utilizing the system — launched by Brazil’s central financial institution two years in the past — to advertise a constructive agenda earlier than voters head to the polls in October, Bloomber reported Friday (Sept. 2).

“Let’s discuss Pix,” he mentioned in an advert operating on social media. It reveals Bolsonaro together with footage of individuals making funds through the Pix cell app and incorporates a girl who calls the platform the most effective factor the incumbent did for Brazil.

Pix was launched 20 months into Bolsonaro’s first yr in workplace and was the fruit of a “lengthy evolutionary course of,” a spokesperson for the financial institution advised Bloomberg.

The report additionally famous that it’s not Pix’s first look throughout this marketing campaign. After a number of banking executives wrote a letter dismissing claims of potential voter fraud by Bolsaonaro, the president’s crew replied by saying the bankers have been mad their establishments had misplaced billions in charges on account of Pix.

And though Bolsonaro’s advertising crew mentioned it should hold selling Pix, the central financial institution’s union mentioned the president ought to get no credit score for the system, arguing that he had dismissed the system earlier than the marketing campaign launched.

Final month, the top of Brazil’s central financial institution mentioned he thinks the nation’s open finance system will quickly usher in the long run of bank card use.

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In a speech at a cryptocurrency occasion, Roberto Campos Neto mentioned that by means of open finance, which Brazil’s central financial institution has carried out since 2021, customers will management all elements of their monetary life in a single place on their cellphones.

This, in flip, will result in the creation of merchandise that may let folks select to make funds with Pix, which is already used extra typically than credit score and debit playing cards within the nation.

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