Search the institutions taking part in Brazil's Pix by name or ISPB, and filter by participation type and modality, straight from the Central Bank's official list.
Anyone looking up Pix participants usually wants to confirm whether a bank or fintech is part of the arrangement, find out which institution an ISPB in a reconciliation file belongs to, or understand the difference between direct and indirect participation. This tool uses the official participant list published by the Central Bank and distributed through BrasilAPI, kept as a local copy and served with search, filters and a detail record. You search by the full or short name, or by the 8-digit ISPB, and filter by participation type (direct or indirect) and by modality. Each record carries the ISPB, the names, the type, the modality and, when reported, the operation start date. It helps to separate three things that often get mixed up: the participant is the institution eligible in the arrangement, the ISPB is the code that identifies it in the financial system, and the Pix key is the alias a user registers to receive money. This list only covers the first: institutions, not customer accounts or keys.
The participant is the institution eligible to operate in the Pix arrangement, such as a bank, a credit union, a payment institution or a fintech. The ISPB, the identifier used for institutions within the Brazilian Payment System, is the 8-digit code that identifies that institution inside the system. The Pix key is the alias a person or company registers on their account to receive money, such as a tax ID, email, phone number or random key.
This list deals only with the first level: the institutions and their identifiers. It does not tell you whether a specific Pix key exists, nor does it expose accounts, balances or customer data. Confirming that a bank takes part in the arrangement is not the same as confirming that a key is registered there.
The participation type describes how the institution reaches the Pix infrastructure. A direct participant connects straight to the Central Bank's Instant Payment System and settles its own transactions in an account at the BCB. An indirect participant reaches the arrangement through a direct participant, which handles settlement on its behalf. In practice, most institutions participate indirectly.
That explains why a small fintech can offer Pix to end customers without keeping a direct connection to the core of the system: it relies on a direct participant for settlement. From the point of view of everyday Pix users, the experience is the same. The distinction matters for understanding the arrangement's architecture, not for choosing where to receive a payment.
The data comes from the Pix participant list maintained by the Central Bank and made available through BrasilAPI, kept as a local copy and refreshed when the tool is republished. The date of the snapshot in use is shown at the top of the screen. The list changes as institutions join or leave the arrangement, so any consequential decision deserves a check at the official source.
Being on the list proves institutional eligibility; it does not assess service, fees, soundness or the products the institution offers. Some payment initiators appear in the arrangement without an ISPB published in this dataset and fall outside an ISPB lookup. Treat the result as an institutional snapshot of the arrangement and note the lookup date.
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Yes, and that is the main use. The search covers the full name and the short name, so typing part of a name already filters the list as you write. To open the record directly by identifier, enter the 8-digit ISPB.
The official list of institutions in Brazil's Pix arrangement, not just the big banks. Search by the name you know or by ISPB, and filter by participation type and modality.
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Informational content. Being listed here indicates institutional eligibility in the Pix arrangement; it does not guarantee that a specific account, product or key is available to you.