The senator (PL) displayed this Wednesday (4) a poster with the message “O belongs to Brazil and Bolsonaro!!!” one day after the president (PT) raised another that said .
The payment system was cited by the United States government as one of the reasons for the proposed 25% tariff applied to Brazilian companies and became a reason for dispute between PT and Bolsonarists.
The Trump administration argues that the Central Bank favors the Brazilian payments system. The US calls Pix the “national champion” of payment systems, and claims that the BC’s “dual role” as regulator and owner/operator of Pix creates a conflict of interest.
Lula’s campaign as an electoral banner, establishing a parallel with the defense of electronic voting machines in the 2022 election.
Pix (Central Bank) during the government of (), in 2018, when the president of the monetary authority was Ilan Goldfajn, and was launched in November 2020, during the management of (), when he was in charge of the BC.
The system went into full operation on November 16, 2020, placing Brazil on the list of countries with a functioning instant payments system.
In 2016, the institution was preparing to launch a tool inspired by Zelle, a platform similar to Pix that fintech Early Warning Services had announced shortly before in the United States.
The 2016 balance of the BC+ Agenda, a project that proposes new actions to modernize and make the economic system more efficient, already provided for “developing rules that increase the agility of the authorization processes for payment arrangements”.
In May 2018, six months before the election in which Bolsonaro was elected president, the BC established the Instant Payments working group, with five subgroups designed to debate specific topics such as security and agility.
