Episode

How Nubank Rewrote Brazil’s Banking Rules with Cristina Junqueira

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This Week in Fintech
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Dec 4, 2025
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1630
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Summary

We sit down with Nubank co-founder Cristina Junqueira for a candid look at how frustration with fee-first banking led to a product people loved, and how that vision scaled across Brazil. We explore hard-won lessons on leadership, communication, regulation, and why AI plus open finance will reshape money. • leaving an incumbent bank to build customer-first products • forming the founding team and starting with nothing • operating through credit cycles, fraud pressure and regulation • leaders...