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Regulator · Brazil — banks and financial institutions

Central Bank of Brazil

Brazil's central bank, responsible for monetary policy, licensing and supervising financial institutions, and overseeing payment systems, including the Pix instant-payment scheme it operates.

Full name
Banco Central do Brasil
Jurisdiction
Brazil
Remit
Brazil — banks and financial institutions
Official site
www.bcb.gov.br

monetary policyprudential supervisionlicensingpayments oversight

Covered banks in this jurisdiction

Nubank

Banks domiciled in the same jurisdiction — individual supervisory responsibility varies by institution and activity.

Approximate reference data from public sources · seed-0.1 · 2026-08-28 · not real-time, not advice. See data & methodology.

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