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Treasury and debt in practice, AI applied to finance and lessons from running a business. Most articles cover Brazilian financial products and rules.
Articles
How to build an e-commerce from scratch
My conversation on the ROI com Cast podcast (in Portuguese) about Super Depo's early years: starting on Mercado Livre, Latin America's largest marketplace, automating to protect margins and keeping cash to survive in retail.
WatchWhy government bond prices change
What mark-to-market (MtM) means and how the prices of Tesouro Direto bonds, Brazil's retail government bonds, change every day.
ReadCompromissadas: Brazil's repo agreements
Buy with a commitment to resell, or sell with a commitment to buy back? The features and advantages of a compromissada, the Brazilian repurchase agreement.
ReadRisk vs. return
The relationship between risk and return in financial markets, and why more risk means wider price swings.
ReadCDI: where does that number come from?
How banks trade liquidity with each other every day, and how the CDI, the Brazilian interbank deposit rate, became the benchmark for credit in Brazil.
ReadThe Selic rate and Copom
How the Central Bank of Brazil and its monetary policy committee, Copom, use the economy's base interest rate to control inflation.
ReadHow to build a pitch deck
Seven essential pieces of information your pitch deck needs when you raise money from investors for your startup.
ReadI write all the articles myself. Read about my career.