Circular Letter No. 3980 — Procedures for financial institutions and other authorized institutions to inform and update access references to their open data catalog

The Head of the Information Technology Department (Deinf), in the exercise of the attributions conferred upon him by art. 23, item I, subparagraph "a", and art. 62, items IV and VI, of the Internal Regulations of the Central Bank of Brazil, annexed to Ordinance No. 84,287, of February 27, 2015, and in view of the provisions of Circular No. 3,958, of August 28, 2019,

RESOLVES:

Art. 1 This Circular Letter provides for the procedures to be adopted by financial institutions and other institutions authorized to operate by the Central Bank of Brazil for the production and disclosure of information, in the form of open data, as required by regulation.

Art. 2 The institutions referred to in art. 1 must:

I - disclose open data, at least, in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format;

II - produce catalogs containing the information and access references to their open data;

III - as of March 2, 2020, inform the Central Bank of Brazil and keep updated the electronic address of their open data catalogs.

§1 The technical specifications, which include the definitions of open data catalogs, and other guidelines to be observed are available at www.bcb.gov.br/estabilidadefinanceira/dadosabertossfn.

§2 As of January 20, 2020, instructions for providing the information referred to in item III of the caput will be available at www.bcb.gov.br/estabilidadefinanceira/dadosabertossfn.

§3 During the period from February 3 to 14, 2020, homologation tests will be carried out for sending the electronic address information referred to in item III.

Art. 3 The Central Bank of Brazil will disclose the information obtained from the catalogs referred to in art. 2 at dadosabertos.bcb.gov.br.

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

Haroldo Jayme Martins Froes Cruz

Head of Deinf