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FAS Advogados, in cooperation with CMS Offices

RUA GOMES DE CARVALHO 1507
SAO PAULO
Brazil
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Vicente Piccoli Medeiros Braga

Work Department
Banking & Finance, Fintechs, Payments, Antitrust, Competition and Trade, Capital Markets
Position
Partner
Career
Vicente Piccoli Medeiros Braga leads the Banking, Payment Methods, and Fintechs practices at FAS Advogados. He has extensive experience in banking, financial, and payment regulation, playing a significant role in various regulatory operations and projects. Additionally, he has worked at ANBIMA, the Credit Guarantee Fund (Brazil’s deposit insurer), B3 (the Brazilian stock exchange), and the Federal Public Ministry’s Unit for Crimes against the Financial System.
Vicente has published numerous articles and book chapters on financial regulation in both national and international journals. He is also the author responsible for the educational materials used by ANBIMA for the certification of banking professionals in the areas of financial system structure, financial regulation, and self-regulation standards.
Languages
Portuguese and English
Memberships
- Member of Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB)
- Member of the Advanced Studies Center of the Financial System at the Rio de Janeiro Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas (NEASF – FGV)
- Member of the Center for Banking Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (CDB – USP)
- Member of the Study Group on Law and Financial Regulation at the Universidade de Brasília (GEFIN – UnB)
- Author of chapters on regulation and self-regulation in the official ANBIMA study materials for the CPA-10 certification
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)
- Master’s Degree in Law and Development with a focus on Banking Regulation from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP)
- Certification in Fintech Innovation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT
- PhD in Law and Banking Regulation from Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Banking and finance
(Next Generation Partners)Vicente Piccoli Medeiros Braga – FAS Advogados, in cooperation with CMS
Financial services regulations are a mainstay of the banking and finance practice at FAS Advogados, in cooperation with CMS, which routinely advises well-established players and new market entrants on the structuring of new financial and payment products and application for licenses with the regulator. Virtual assets services providers such as cryptoexchanges and marketplaces also feature on the firm’s client base, which routinely engages it in mandates involving banking, foreign exchange, derivatives, securities and payments regulations. Matters concerning credit fintechs and new open finance business models are key areas of growth for the team, which is under the joint leadership of Paulo Mertz Focaccia, a fintech specialist, and Vicente Piccoli Medeiros Braga, a financial and banking regulatory expert.