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Itaú agora permite usar pontos acumulados para pagar Pix

Banking and Fintech

Clientes poderão usar o saldo de pontos para pagar transações pelo app, sem cobrança de taxa. Itaú agora permite usar pontos acumulados para pagar Pix

Clientes poderão usar o saldo de pontos para pagar transações pelo app, sem cobrança de taxa. Itaú agora permite usar pontos acumulados para pagar Pix

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  • Tema: Banca y Fintech — Banca digital, pagos, open banking y regulación financiera.
  • Fonte: Tecnoblog
  • Publicado: 19/10/2026

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Why it matters

What I see behind almost every digital banking story is the same tension: the front end is modern and the core is still a system that has been running for twenty years and nobody dares touch. The distance between those two layers explains most of the projects that slip.

My view here is shaped by the Panamanian market: regulation changes, standards arrive with a deadline, and the operation has to keep invoicing while it adapts. The useful question is not whether it suits you, it is how much time there is to comply.

What usually goes wrong

Where it usually breaks is customer service. The product launches, the support team finds out the week before, and when somebody calls because the money did not arrive nobody knows what to tell them. Trust is lost there, not in the technical outage that caused it.

What to watch

  • How money is returned when something fails, and how fast the customer sees it.
  • Which part of the customer relationship ends up with a third party and whether that is reversible.
  • What happens to cost per transaction at real volume, which is where the business is decided.

How I read this entry

I would treat it as a conversation about partnerships rather than product. In this sector fewer and fewer institutions build everything, and the relevant decision is who you partner with and which part of the customer relationship you hand over. That handover is hard to reverse later.

The original story is published in another language; the excerpt is quoted as the publisher delivers it and the commentary is written in English.
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