UNICRED
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Founded1989
HQSão Paulo, Brazil
IndustryBank / Cooperative
The story
Unicred is a 36-year-old Brazilian credit cooperative system (not a fintech), operating as a member-owned financial institution with 367k cooperados and 25 cooperatives. In late 2024 it restructured into a two-tier system with a National Central. Its embedded finance footprint is limited to Brazilian domestic rails: PIX, boletos (CNAB), an in-house acquiring product (Unicred Pay), Open Finance (mandated by BACEN), and a developer API portal operated on Sensedia infrastructure.
Last 12 months
Product timeline
1989
Founded as a Brazilian financial cooperative system· banking
2024
Adopted a two-tier organizational structure (Nov 2024), consolidating 25 cooperatives under a National Central· pivot
Regulated entities
2
regulatory licences held by UNICRED
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
Same company
UNICRED was analysed under more than one name on the same domain, so its stack is split across these dossiers. Each was analysed independently and may name providers the others do not.
The stack
9 layers disclosed in UNICRED’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Money movement
in the full report
Banking / BaaS
in the full report
Card issuing
in the full report
Card network
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
Open banking
in the full report
FX & payouts
in the full report
Investing
in the full report
Accounting gap: significant
15 more providers across 8 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.