“Can a Brazilian receivables/billing gateway evolve into a full digital bank owning the SMB financial stack in Brazil?”
Founded 2007 in Ouro Preto, Brazil as Gerencianet — a receivables/billing platform focused on boletos and later Pix for SMBs and developers. Rebranded to Efí Bank to become a full digital bank offering personal and business accounts, credit cards, and payment APIs. Today the company issues 130M+ billings per year and serves ~290k customers across Brazil, competing with local PSPs and neobanks in the Brazilian Pix/boleto/card acceptance market.