Valid

Valid S.A. is a Brazilian security-printing and document-personalization company whose activities include the production and personalization of cards, identity documents, driver's licenses, and other controlled or security-sensitive materials. The company serves a mixture of private-sector and public-sector customers, including banks, telecommunications operators, state governments, public agencies, and capital-markets institutions. The business originated in Brazil in 1957 as a subsidiary of American Banknote, linking its early development to the security-printing and document-production industry. It later became an independently listed company, completing an initial public offering on BM&F Bovespa in 2006. In October 2010, the company adopted the name Valid, marking the consolidation of its corporate identity under the brand used today. Valid’s activities have included card manufacturing and personalization for banks and telecommunications companies, as well as the production of identity cards and driver's licenses for government and transit authorities. Its customer base has included Telefônica Brasil, TIM, Claro Brasil, Itaú Unibanco, Banco do Brasil, Citibank, Bradesco, Santander Brasil, Caixa Econômica Federal, BM&F Bovespa, and Brazil’s Department of Transit, according to the referenced company description. These relationships place Valid at the intersection of physical security printing, financial-services infrastructure, telecommunications provisioning, and public-document administration. The company’s operating footprint has included Brazil, Argentina, and Spain. The referenced description reports three factories and 84 personalization sites, indicating a distributed production and service network rather than a single manufacturing location. It also reports that in 2010 Valid sold or processed 465.1 million cards, 15.4 million driver's licenses and identity cards, and 12.3 thousand tons of paper. Those figures illustrate the scale of its document and card operations at that point in the company’s development, although they should not be treated as current performance data. Valid is listed in Brazil under the ticker VLID3. Its public-facing business should be distinguished from a narrowly defined consumer fintech brand: the available reference material characterizes it primarily as an industrial and technology-enabled security-printing, card-personalization, and identity-document services provider. The supplied sources do not establish a complete current breakdown of revenue, ownership, executive leadership, product branding, or post-2010 strategic changes. Accordingly, this profile emphasizes the documented corporate history, customer categories, geographic scope, and operating capabilities rather than asserting unsupported current financial or organizational details.

A business-to-business security-printing, card-personalization, and identity-document services provider for financial institutions, telecommunications companies, governments, and public agencies.

Product categories. Payment and banking cards · Telecommunications cards and related personalization services · Identity cards · Driver's licenses · Security-printed documents · Personalized financial and government documents · Specialized paper and security-printing materials

• Unconfirmed

  Reported2026.10.01

  Valid hires Simpson Thacher to buy Brazilian fintech company[1]Valid聘请Simpson Thacher收购巴西金融科技公司news.google.com

  Latin Lawyer reported that Valid has hired Simpson Thacher to buy a Brazilian fintech company. The target company was not named in the supplied evidence.

• 2019.11.14

  Reported2019.11.14

  Valid and 1oT announce an IoT eSIM partnership[2]Valid与1oT宣布合作推出物联网eSIM方案prweb.com

  Valid and 1oT announced a partnership to offer an end-to-end eSIM solution for the IoT market, combining Valid's eSIM technology and subscription management services with 1oT's connectivity services.

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1. 1Valid聘请Simpson Thacher收购巴西金融科技公司news.google.com
2. 2Valid与1oT宣布合作推出物联网eSIM方案prweb.com