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What Open Finance is in Brazil
In Brazil, Open Finance is the Central Bank–regulated system in which the account holder authorizes institutions to share financial data through APIs, with specific consent, a time limit and the right to revoke. Finora, a MSphere product still coming soon, uses that model to analyze personal or business accounts.
One-sentence definition
It is not the bank “opening” your data on its own: you authorize another participating institution to access account, transaction or product information, within the consent you gave.
Open Banking and Open Finance
Open Banking was the earlier stage, focused on banking data. Open Finance widens the scope to other financial data, always with consent. In Brazil, Open Finance is the name for the broader arrangement.
What it is for
With data from more than one institution, you can see accounts together, standardize spending categories and raise alerts — without exporting CSV files into a spreadsheet every month. The value is a consolidated, auditable-consent view, not “hacking” internet banking.
Where Finora fits
MSphere’s Finora is analytics: connect to Open Finance (with consent), organize the data and return metrics, charts, insights and alerts. It is not a bank. The product is not publicly available yet; this article does not list a launch date.
Consent and LGPD
Access depends on the holder’s authorization, with scope and duration. MSphere processes data in line with the LGPD and does not fine-tune on customer data. Revoking Open Finance consent and exercising privacy-policy rights are separate, complementary paths.
Frequently asked questions
No. Brazil’s model uses authorization through participating institutions. Finora’s description does not ask for internet-banking passwords.
Not yet. The product is coming soon. The Finora page and MSphere’s WhatsApp are the channels to follow the launch.
No. Finora’s proposal covers personal or business accounts, always with consent.