Brazil’s digital banks come of age

The leading neobanks in Brazil seem to have hit their stride in terms of profitability just as some of the traditional banks have stumbled. Are these firms the future of Brazilian banking?

A year ago, the return on equity of Brazilian digital lender Nubank was zero (or 0.001% to be precise). Today, it is 23%.

Similarly, a year ago the RoE of another digital firm, Banco Inter, was -0.2%, while today it is 8.5%, having grown by two percentage points in each of the past three quarters. Inter’s chief executive, João Menin, is targeting a RoE of 30% by 2028 and believes that the longer-term sustainable RoE is somewhere above that number.

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