The Central Bank of Brazil broke its own record in the first week of March: for the second time, the system surpassed the mark of 170 million transactions in 24 hours
The Central Bank’s (BC) instant transfer system, Pix, broke a new record last Wednesday (6). On the day, 178.686 million transfers were made via Pix to end users.
🟢 No technical failures were recorded in the system that day.
🟢 Created in November 2020, by the end of February 2024, Pix had 160.83 million users. Of these, 146.95 million are individuals and 13.88 million are businesses.
🟢 In January, the Brazilian instant payment system exceeded the mark of 1.82 trillion reais, processed in a month.
The previous record was on December 20, with 178.091 million transactions in a single day.
