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Brazil Business
Aug 13, 2025
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Paraná is moving to privatize its state-owned IT company. Privacy watchdogs say the plan risks exposing sensitive information.
Aug 6, 2025
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The US is the largest source of foreign direct investment in Brazil. Will a trade crisis between the two countries affect this longstanding history?
Jul 30, 2025
3 min read
As the US prepares steep tariffs on Brazilian goods, we explore what’s at stake. Plus, the fresh US sanctions on a Supreme Court justice.
Jul 23, 2025
Political and trade disputes with the US could renew the Brazilian government’s push to launch a new tax for Big Tech companies.
Jul 16, 2025
Brazilian planemaker Embraer could see a hit rivaling its Covid downturn if the US follows through with 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports, its CEO warns
Jul 9, 2025
New regulations will make Brazilian capital markets more accessible to small and mid-size companies, encouraging more equity offerings and debt issuances for businesses in earlier stages of growth.
Jul 2, 2025
Simplifying Brazil’s highly complex tax system will demand major technological adaptation from the government and companies, in a process that will need to be accomplished while legislators are still working out the new framework’s rules.
Jun 25, 2025
The Lula administration is raising the alarm over the expansion of payments of a social benefit for poor retirees and people with disabilities. Some of the growth, however, was down to the government’s own policies.
Jun 18, 2025
With one of the world’s largest reserves and a wave of new projects underway, Brazil could play a strategic role in reshaping global supply chains
Jun 11, 2025
For decades Brazil has discussed how to regulate the role of lobbyists. A bill has made some progress in Congress, but questions around transparency are still under debate
Jun 4, 2025
Doing business in Brazil is getting less complicated, but the country still has a long way to go, a new report finds
May 28, 2025
A Chinese startup is trying to facilitate money flows between China and Brazil — providing infrastructure it says will mimic Brazil’s instant payment service, Pix.
May 21, 2025
A new wave of digital offers is bringing more and more Brazilians to investment-based products, and many new investors might not even realize they are investing
May 14, 2025
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Brazilian startup GigU clashed with Uber in courts over its driver earnings optimization app. Now the company is aiming at gig workers in the US
May 7, 2025
A crisis in a mid-sized bank is prompting calls for changes to Brazil's deposit insurance system, pitting large financial corporations against fintech upstarts
Apr 30, 2025
Mayor Eduardo Paes announces plans to turn Rio into Latin America’s biggest data center hub. The early stage pitch will face some hurdles
