Circular Letter No. 3.621

The Head of the Financial System Monitoring Department (Desig), using the authority conferred by art. 22, item I, subitem “a” of the Internal Regulations of the Central Bank of Brazil, annexed to Administrative Rule No. 29.971, of 4 March 2005, in view of the provisions of item II of art. 71 of the aforementioned Regulations,

D E C I D E S :

Art. 1 The documents provided for in art. 1 of Circular No. 3.669, of 2 October 2013, must be prepared in “txt” format and sent to the Central Bank of Brazil, through the File Transfer System (STA) application, in the form of Circular Letter No. 3.588, of 18 March 2013, available for access on the Central Bank of Brazil's website on the Internet, at the address https://sta.bcb.gov.br/sta/.

§ 1 The layouts and filling instructions for the documents mentioned in the caput are available on the Central Bank of Brazil's website on the Internet, at the address http://www.bcb.gov.br/?leiautes.

§ 2 The sending of the documents mentioned in the caput must only be carried out after the institution certifies that there will be no impediment to their reception due to existing automatic validations, as detailed on the Central Bank of Brazil's website on the Internet, at the address http://www.bcb.gov.br/fis/info/CriticasCosif.pdf.

Art. 2 The institutions referred to in art. 1 of Circular No. 3.669, of 2013, may use, in addition to the active accounting entries of the Chart of Accounts for Institutions of the National Financial System (Cosif), which contain the attributes related to them, those relating to the financial conglomerate attribute.

Art. 3 Questions related to the subject contained in this Circular Letter should be sent to the email cosif@bcb.gov.br.

Art. 4 This Circular Letter enters into force on the date of its publication.

Gilneu Francisco Astolfi Vivan