“Can a lean banking-correspondent franchise network profitably scale distribution of consigned credit to Brazilian retirees and pensioners?”
Grupo Digital Soluções Financeiras is a Brazilian banking correspondent (correspondente bancário), not a chartered bank or tech-first fintech. Founded in 2018 in Guarulhos, it distributes credit products — consigned loans, FGTS anniversary-withdrawal anticipation, consigned credit cards, consórcio — on behalf of licensed Brazilian financial institutions. The core business model is originating loans as an intermediary and scaling distribution through a home-office franchise network. It is a lending-distribution SMB, not an embedded-finance infrastructure company.