Financial services companies in Federal District (Brasília), Brazil

The Receita Federal (CNPJ registry) lists 10,748 financial services companies (banks, credit, fintech, insurance and brokers) in Federal District (Brasília), of which 10,748 are active. With 2.3% of Brazil's section K records, Federal District (Brasília) is the 8th largest of the country's 27 states for this sector (extraction 2026-10-10). Its weight in the local economy is close to the national mix: 4.6% of Federal District (Brasília)'s records against 4.3% nationally (location quotient 1.08).

Brasilia concentrates 100.0% of the active companies. The median active company is 3.8 years old; 23% were registered in the last year and 44% in the last three. In the 12 months to September 2026, 2,405 new financial services businesses were registered in Federal District (Brasília), +96.2% on the previous 12 months (national section K: +53.8%). By ISIC division, 64 (financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding) is 70.6% of the records and 66 (activities auxiliary to financial service and insurance activities) 26.6%. Size is known for 39% of the active companies; 70% of those are micro.

The operating institutions are a minority of this section: holding companies (ISIC 6420) and investment funds and trusts (6430) make up most of division 64 in Brazil, Chile and Peru. The LATAM Financial Services package removes those two classes; on this page the counts include them. Banks, credit co-operatives, payment institutions, brokers, insurers and asset managers are what payments infrastructure, KYC/AML, core-banking and insurtech vendors come here for.