Agreement provides for the development of projects and partnerships with entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses
Boost the Brazilian innovation ecosystem – mainly related to the financial system – through the application of technologies and business models that bring benefits to society and the country. This is the main objective of the technical cooperation agreement signed between CPQD and the National Federation of Central Bank Servants Associations – Fenasbac, which provides for the development of innovation projects and partnerships with entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses in areas of common interest .
Fenasbac and CPQD have been participating, for some years now, in some initiatives conducted within the innovation ecosystem of the financial sector. This is the case of LIFT Lab – Laboratory of Financial and Technological Innovations, created in 2018 by the Central Bank together with Fenasbac with the purpose of fostering innovation in the national financial system.
“With this technical cooperation agreement, we will make available to current and future Fenasbac partners our technological assets, skills and ability to raise resources to promote innovation, for the development of projects aimed at the digital transformation of the financial system”, says Sirlene Aveiro Honório, director of Sales and Market Development at CPQD. Among the technological assets available, Sirlene mentions the iD platform, a decentralized digital identity solution based on blockchain, Voice Biometrics, which increases the security of the user authentication process, and the Pailot platform, which combines Internet of Things resources ( IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
In addition, CPQD offers consultancy services and the development of strategic technology plans for companies in various sectors – including finance. “CPQD can also support companies and fintechs in the development of technological solutions designed to meet specific demands of the sector, using resources from EMBRAPII, of which it is an accredited unit”, adds Sirlene.
Fenasbac, in turn, has boosted the Brazilian innovation ecosystem, through a set of innovation laboratories aligned with the strategic agenda established by the Central Bank - LIFT Lab, LIFT Learning and LIFT Challenge Real Digital -, in addition to acceleration programs with important financial market institutions, such as Mercado Bitcoin, Banco do Brasil, Núclea, Sicredi, Cartões Elo, Tecban and Sinqia.
“Today we have more than one hundred startups and partners in the innovation ecosystem that we have been developing since 2017. Being able to count on CPQD again will boost important new initiatives for the design of the future of the national financial system”, highlights Rodrigo de Azevedo Henriques, director of Fenasbac innovation.