BCB Resolution No. 289 — Amends BCB Resolution No. 150 of October 6, 2021, regarding payment arrangements and payment services in the Brazilian Payments System (SPB)

BCB RESOLUTION NO. 289, OF JANUARY 25, 2023

Amends
BCB Resolution No. 150, of October 6, 2021, which consolidates rules on payment arrangements, approves the regulation that disciplines the provision of payment services within the scope of arrangements integrated into the Brazilian Payments System (SPB), and establishes the criteria according to which payment arrangements will not be part of the SPB.

The Collegiate Board of the Central Bank of Brazil, in a session held on January 24, 2023, based on arts. 6, 9, and 15 of Law No. 12,865, of October 9, 2013, and taking into account the provisions of art. 6 of Resolution No. 4,282, of November 4, 2013,

RESOLVES:

Art. 1 BCB Resolution No. 150, of October 6, 2021, shall enter into force with the following alterations:

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III - in which the payment instrument is:

a) offered within the scope of a program intended to grant benefits to natural persons due to employment relationships, service provision, or similar, established by law or by an act of the federal, state, or municipal Executive Power; or

b) intended for the use of the food assistance provided for in § 2 of art. 457 of the Consolidation of Labor Laws, approved by Decree-Law No. 5,452, of May 1, 1943, as well as benefits of the same nature, for the payment of meals at restaurants and similar establishments or for the acquisition of food items at commercial establishments, established by law or by an act of the federal, state, or municipal Executive Power.

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Art. 2 This Resolution enters into force on March 1, 2023.

Renato Dias de Brito Gomes
Director of Organization of the Financial System and Resolution