Banco Central do Brasil / Conselho Monetário Nacional
Issues the instrumentSets the rules for opening and maintaining deposit accounts, including for non-residents.
An instrument published here takes legal effect on publication. This is where the law becomes the law.
www.bcb.gov.brCannot be cited for
Cannot be cited for what a customer must present to open an account. The 2019 resolution deliberately abolished the prescriptive document list and delegates the criteria to each institution's own unpublished internal document, so there is no national answer to quote.
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120 days
Publication rhythm
Normative acts published continuously; consolidated attachments carry a version suffix.
Re-check triggers
a resolution amending the deposit-account rules · exchange-control changes affecting non-resident accounts