Origin
Faria Lima was widened in the 1990s under the "Operação Urbana Faria Lima". A wave of bank, broker and asset-manager headquarters moved there from Avenida Paulista and downtown through the 2000s.
Who works here
- Itaú Unibanco, BTG Pactual, Bradesco (Cidade de Deus campus, but Faria Lima offices)
- XP Investimentos, Inter, Nubank
- Brazilian hedge funds and asset managers (Verde, Adam, SPX, Dahlia)
- International banks' São Paulo offices
Landmarks
- Itaú Unibanco headquarters (Praça Alfredo Egydio de Souza Aranha)
- Faria Lima Plaza
- B3 (Bolsa, Praça Antonio Prado)
Primary exchange
B3· B3
Three indices a local would build
Open the prompt box pre-filled with one of these and turn it into a transparent, rule-based index in under a minute.
- An index of Brazilian large-cap banks, equal-weighted (ITUB, BBDC, BBAS, SANB, BPAC).open in builder →
- Bovespa ex-Petrobras, Vale, Itaú, Bradesco — "Brazil ex-mega".open in builder →
- Latin American banks ranked by ROE.open in builder →
