During a recent interview with Brazilian financial services group XP’s chief executive Guilherme Benchimol, I joked about a quote I read as part of my research that was attributed to him in 2017.
He had gone on the record as saying XP could become bigger than Itaú. But, I said, with Itaú holding a 49% stake of XP, that wasn’t possible if Itaú didn’t sell its shares.
Still, I noted, it was amazing that Itaú’s stake in XP was now worth about 10% of the market capitalization of Brazil’s biggest private bank, especially as that market cap is a mighty R$315 billion ($73 billion).
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