Financiamento amplo às empresas: crédito bancário, mercado de capitais e setor externo

Abstract

Increasing the dissemination of information about sources of financing to Brazilian companies is an important effort, since it allows a better understanding of the dynamics of financing in Brazil and expands the scope of the analysis. The sum of resources from capital market and from the external sector to bank credit is denominated as ‘extended financing to companies’. While corporate bank credit shows a contraction in real terms since 2015, explained by the performance of BNDES, the incorporation of resources from domestic and foreign capital markets tends to modify this scenario in the most recent period. The most conventional diagnosis tends to attribute this dynamic fully to the lower performance of BNDES. However, without fully discarding such an explanation, further studies are necessary to determine the additional determinants that influence the performance of other sources of resources. It is important to keep in mind that both international liquidity conditions and the level of domestic interest rates are key elements for the good performance of alternative sources. Nevertheless, BNDES is still the main source of long-term funding for Brazilian companies. Since the country has huge investment needs, synergy efforts through complementarity between the private and public credit system, external resources and the capital markets are a must-have. This is essential for the resumption of investment and economic growth.