Incentive Program

Purpose

Have you ever thought of becoming a trader in the Brazilian financial market?

The New Traders Program Cycle 2025 was created to encourage traders associated with proprietary trading firms based abroad who do not have previous experience in the Brazilian market to join the markets managed by B3, as described in the New Nonresident Traders Incentive Program Rules - Cycle 2025.

In this program, new traders will benefit from exemptions on exchange fees and other charges when carrying out trades with listed contracts, such as derivatives and cash equities. These incentives will be granted through a program of points offered to traders.

Adhesion to the New Traders Program Cycle 2025

To join the program, interested firms shall send the Firm Instrument of Agreement for B3’s assessment as per the template attached hereto as Annex I f the circular letter at the end of the page.

The Firm’s Instrument of Agreement must be submitted to B3 by a trading participant (PN) or full trading participant (PNP), which will be responsible for verifying the firm’s powers of representation by filing a request with B3’s Service Portal at “Programa de Incentivo para Novos Operadores Não Residentes”, which can be accessed at atendimento.b3.com.br/programadeincentivor

B3 will analyze the request to join the Program, and once compliance with all requirements has been confirmed, it will inform the requesting PNP or PN of the firm’s approval.

 

Further information about registration and the Program can be found in the following Circular Letter

The instrument for firm registration can be found in  Instrument of Agreement – Firm
The instrument for operator registration can be found in  Instrument of Agreement – Trader

 

Eligibility firms must:

 

1. Be nonresident institutions in compliance with the provisions of BCB-CVM Joint Resolution 13/2024.

2. Trade exclusively with their own resources.

3. Have at least 50 traders trading in global markets (other exchanges than B3).

4. Not participate and not request participation, during the term of the Cycle 2025 Program, in other Incentive Programs for New Nonresident Investors.

5. Not be registered in the High Frequency Traders program or as a market maker in the same accounts and product families that will be used for the Cycle 2025 Program.

 

Eligible traders must:

 

1. Have no previous participation in this Program, even representing another firm, nor in Cycles 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 of the Nonresident Traders Incentive Program, as set forth in Circular Letters 006/2017-DN, 001/2019-VPC, 001/2020-VPC, 186/2020-VPC, 012/2021-VPC, 009/2023-PRE and 224/2023-PRE respectively.

2. Have a day-trade volume averaging 70% of their total trading volume during the Cycle 2025 Program, calculated monthly, from the first to the last business day of the month, considering the trading volumes of the derivatives market and cash market 
3. Not trade with high frequency and systematic trading models.
2. Have no previous experience in trading the eligible products traded in the markets operated by B3, described in item 2 below. A trader with previous experience is one who has performed any type of transaction involving eligible products in the markets operated by B3. It is the sole responsibility of the participating firm to assure that the designated trader meets this criterion. It is also responsible, when signing the Instrument of Agreement, for checking whether and declaring that the trader has no history of trading in the aforementioned markets.

 

Timeframe

The incentives will be valid for up to twelve (12) months from B3’s approval of trader registration in the New Traders Program Cycle 2025 or until all points are consumed, whichever occurs first.

Withdrawal

In the event that a partner institution chooses to withdraw from the program before the end of the full term, the firm must send an email to the designated RM to assist its team.

Calculation Rules

To encourage participation, fee exemptions will be granted to registered traders in the form of a bonus of 10,000 points per trader. These points are personal and non-transferable and may be used exclusively to trade eligible products.

Eligible Products

On applying for registration, the firm must designate, among the items listed below, the products that will be traded for the purpose of controlling the traders’ incentives.

Interest Rates Group

• One-Day Interbank Deposit Futures Contract (DI1)
• DI x IPCA Spread Futures (DAP)
• Structured Transaction of Forward Rate Agreement on DI x U.S. Dollar Spread (FRC)

FX Group

• U.S. Dollar Futures Contract (DOL)
• Mini U.S. Dollar Futures Contract (WDO)
• Structured U.S. Dollar Rollover Transaction (DR1)
• Structured Mini U.S. Dollar Rollover Transaction (WD1)

Equities Group

• Ibovespa Futures Contract (IND)
• Mini Ibovespa Futures Contract (WIN)
• Structured Ibovespa Rollover Transaction (IR1)
• Structured Mini Ibovespa Rollover Transaction (WI1)
• Cash Equities (stocks, BDRs, ETFs, units, investment fund shares, subscription warrants, subscription receipts, subscription rights)
• Options on Equities
• Options on Indices (IBOV11 and BOVA11)
• Exercises on Equity Options
• Exercises on Index Options (IBOV11 and BOVA11).

Commodities Group

• 4/5 Arabica Coffee Futures Contract (ICF)
• Live Cattle Futures Contract (BGI)
• Hydrous Ethanol Futures Contract (ETH)
• Corn Futures Contract (CCM)

Incentives

Each registered trader will be entitled to exemptions on exchange fees and other fees arising from transactions with the eligible products, as described below.

Program of Points

Each contract or equity asset traded represents a quantity of points, regardless of the nature or type of security, contract month, term, or type of equity asset or option type, as shown in the table below:

Product	Points per contract
Interest Rate Group
DI1	0,12
DAP	0,22
FRC	0,38
FX Group
DOL	0,67
WDO	0,14
DR1	1,34
WD1	0,36
Equities Group
IND	0,20
WIN	0,03
IR1	0,53
WI1	0,11
Commodities Group
BGI	0,30
CCM	0,10
ETH	0,73
ICF	0,65

Product	Product Points per BRL1.00 traded
Cash equities (stocks, BDRs, ETFs, units, investment fund shares, subscription bonuses, subscription receipts, subscription rights)	0,000041
Options on Equities	0.00020
Options on Indices (IBOV11 and BOVA11)	0.00012
Exercises on Equities and BOVA11	0.000033
Exercises on Index (IBOV11)	0.000043

Calculation of Points

B3 will keep track of the daily use of the available points. Upon completion of the 12-month timeframe for using the incentive, or upon full use of the points available, whichever comes first, B3 will resume charging all the exchange and other fees applicable to each transaction executed on a trader’s account according to the fee schedule in place.

Additionally, the firms that participated in Cycle 2018, Cycle 2019, Cycle 2020, Cycle 2021, Cycle 2022, Cycle 2023 and/or Cycle 2024 of the Program must maintain, on a quarterly basis, a maximum correlation of 50% between (i) the total number of contracts among eligible products traded in accounts benefited by the incentive and (ii) points used in regular accounts during the course of the Cycle 2025 Program

Example

Suppose that at the end of the 10th month of participation in the Program, a trader given 10,000 points has traded the following quantities of contracts:

Product	Traded Contracts	Status
DI1	10,000	10,000 x 0.12 = 1,020 points
DOL	5,000	5,000 x 0.67 = 3,350 points

At the end of the 10th month of participation, the trader has spent 4,370 points out of a total discount of 10,000 points and has 5,630 points available for use within the following two months.

Traders Registered in the Cycle 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Programs

The firms that participated in the Cycle 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024 programs must send the Instrument of Agreement for the Cycle 2025 Program to include new traders.

At any given time, traders of up to two cycles of 2024 and 2025 of the Program may coexist under the same firm. In this case, there may be a number of traders per firm greater than 80.

Example:

Suppose that the same firm participates in both the Cycle 2024 Program and the Cycle 2025 Program. Its traders will be subject to the rules of the cycle in which they are registered.

 

In the scenario above, firm A will have traders registered under the rules of both the Cycle 2024 Program and Cycle 2025 Program simultaneously between January 2025 and November 2025.