Finance

Failed Bank Relied on Brazil’s XP for Its Breakneck Growth

Banco Master’s headquarters in Sao PauloPhotographer: Victor Moriyama/Bloomberg

The meteoric rise of Brazil’s Banco Master SA, which collapsed last month amid allegations of fraud, depended heavily on its ties to XP Inc., whose retail investing platform made possible a near doubling of the failed bank’s lending portfolio every year.

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