{"id":500182,"date":"2026-05-24T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/500182\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:03:11","slug":"brazil-debt-crisis-swells-with-over-82-million-behind-on-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/500182\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil debt crisis swells with over 82 million behind on payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/finance\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finance<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Government rolls out relief as Asian firms eye growing fintech-led credit market<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260522N nubank\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A Nubank mobile app.\u00a0The Brazilian fintech bank is rapidly expanding in the country. (Photo by Niki Mizuguchi)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SAO PAULO &#8212; Brazil is facing a worsening household debt crisis, with\u00a0nearly half\u00a0the adult population\u00a0behind on payments, as high interest rates and rapid fintech expansion strain consumer finances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Government rolls out relief as Asian firms eye growing fintech-led credit market A Nubank mobile app.\u00a0The Brazilian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[217493,377,79,20084,6046,179,18,19,17,6869,4592,217492],"class_list":["post-500182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-217493","tag-brazil","tag-business","tag-crisis","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-million","tag-payments","tag-swells"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116628751215194103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}