B3 posts R$ 1.4 billion recurring profit in 3Q26 and announces R$ 1.13 billion in interest on equity
B3 posted recurring net income of about R$ 1.4 billion in 3Q26, up 9.9%, and announced R$ 1.13 billion in interest on equity.
Operator of Brazil's exchange and market infrastructure, listed as B3SA3. Revenue tracks traded volumes; tax and regulatory disputes (Carf, Cade) make up its contingent risk.
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B3 won at Carf the cancellation of about R$ 2.2 billion in assessments over FX variation on the sale of CME Group shares, stating no impact on its financial statements — contingent-risk reduction in the week Cade rules on its CRDC purchase.
Updated November 13, 2026 · 30 verified articles
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Explanatory mechanism, not a forecast or recommendation.B3 posted recurring net income of about R$ 1.4 billion in 3Q26, up 9.9%, and announced R$ 1.13 billion in interest on equity.
B3 and Leto Asset Management are making a joint primary investment of about R$ 40 million in IDEX Analytics; B3 may reach 40% and holds an option on the rest from 2031, subject to Cade.
B3 adjusted trading hours from November 3, following the end of daylight saving time in the US: equities trade from 10am to 5:55pm, with a closing call until 6pm, according to B3, Money Times and Investidor10.
B3 will extend stock trading until 5:55 p.m., with a closing call until 6 p.m., from November 3, 2026, due to the end of daylight saving time in the US, according to CNN Brasil and Money Times.
The Ibovespa closed down 13.88% at 176,608.23 points on October 26, and the dollar rose 8.21% to R$ 5.4027, in a session that triggered a circuit breaker, the first since 2020, on the first trading day after Lula reelection, according to Agência Brasil, Exame and CNN Brasil.
Average daily volume of options on stocks, ETFs, BDRs and indexes at B3 reached about R$ 1.4 billion in 2026, up 79% from R$ 781 million in 2025, according to B3 data through October 9. In October, one session totaled R$ 2.96 billion, a new record, according to B3 and InfoMoney.
Petrobras reached R$ 800 billion in market value for the first time on October 14, according to O Globo and Investidor10. In the same ranking, BTG Pactual overtook Vale to become B3's third most valuable company, according to Exame, InfoMoney and Investidor10.
B3 launched four new US Treasury futures contracts, complementing the existing 10-year contract. Trading began on October 13, according to B3 and Investidor10.
Afya and Yduqs announced on the night of September 23, through a material fact, the combination of their businesses by share swap, with no cash payment: Afya shareholders will hold 69% of the combined company and Yduqs shareholders 31%. Afya will be merged into Yduqs, which stays listed on B3, and will leave Nasdaq; Yduqs shareholders will receive a minimum R$ 750 million dividend. The new company will have 1.6 million students and R$ 9.4 billion in revenue over the 12 months to June, with Afya Virgilio Gibbon as chief executive and Bertelsmann Kay Krafft chairing the board. The deal depends on Cade.
The full concession of water and sewage services for 40 of the 52 municipalities of Rondônia, including Porto Velho, for 35 years, received no bid envelopes by the September 22 deadline at B3 and was declared void; the auction was scheduled for September 29. The project had an estimated value of R$ 8.5 billion, R$ 4.2 billion in investment and a minimum fixed grant of R$ 567.7 million, with a tariff discount of up to 20% allowed in the tender. Aegea, BRK and Acciona showed interest but did not formalize participation; NeoFeed attributes the void to high rates, operator leverage and commitments from earlier concessions, and expects a redesign and a new attempt in 2027.
JBS said on September 22 that it obtained a fully favorable ruling in four consolidated arbitration proceedings at the B3 Market Arbitration Chamber (CAM 151/20, 157/20, 195/21 and 252/23), brought by foreign investment funds that alleged disclosure failures and sought compensation for losses from the share price decline. The defendants were JBS, J&F, Joesley and Wesley Batista. The final arbitral award was issued on September 4 and the company became aware on September 16; amounts and grounds remain confidential.
Data from Trillia, the B3 lien platform, released on September 22 show 683,928 vehicles financed in August, up 10.4% from August 2025 and the best result for the month since 2011. There were 478,000 light vehicles (350,000 new and 127,000 used), 178,000 motorcycles (up 4.9%) and 27,000 heavy vehicles (up 10.4%). Year to date, 5.136 million vehicles were financed, 10% more than in 2025. New vehicle prices rose 2.7% in August and are down 1.1% over 12 months; used prices are down 3.9% over 12 months.
Banco Santander filed with the CVM on September 22 requests for registration as a category A foreign issuer, for its BDR program and for the public exchange offer, plus a request to admit the BDRs to trading on B3, according to a Santander Brasil material fact. The voluntary offer, announced in July with a 15% premium over the July 30 close, targets the roughly 10% of Santander Brasil shares and units still outstanding, with an exchange ratio of 0.2028 BDR per share and 0.4056 per unit. The UBS BB appraisal puts the economic value between 12.62 and 13.88 euros per Santander share; the F-4 form at the SEC has not yet been declared effective.
XP suspended from September 21 new investments and transfers into six CDI-linked fixed income ETFs: AMAB11, DEBB11, LFIN11 and MARG11 (BTG Pactual), GICP11 (Genial) and NLFA11 (Nu). The broker cites uncertainty over the applicable rate, 15% or 25%, which depends on how the average maturity of portfolios of CDI-indexed debentures and bank notes is calculated. Existing holders are not affected and the funds keep trading on B3; Anbima says the industry position creates no tax benefit, only equivalent treatment.
JBS S.A. filed on September 21 with the CVM a request for voluntary cancellation of its category A issuer registration, the one that allows share trading in Brazil. JBS N.V., the holding listed on the New York Stock Exchange, remains a registered issuer and the JBSS32 BDRs keep trading on B3. In the same move, J&F, the Batista family holding that controls JBS, Âmbar Energia, Eldorado, Flora and PicPay, applied for category B public company registration, which allows only debt instruments such as debentures and commercial notes.
Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino ruled on September 20 that the federal government, coordinated by the Finance Ministry, must carry out within 90 days a technical assessment and reappraisal of the CVM's rules. The decision comes in the case in which he had already ordered an emergency plan for the regulator's enforcement, cites relaxations of 2021 and 2022 resolutions said to have created systemic permissiveness and a case forwarded in 2022 that anticipated the irregularities later found at Banco Master, plus Transparency International reports of complaints shelved without minimal inquiries.
B3's board approved R$ 1.128 billion in interest on equity: R$ 378 million ordinary (R$ 0.07590407 per share) and R$ 750 million extraordinary (R$ 0.15060331), totaling R$ 0.22650738 gross and R$ 0.18686859 net per share. The record date is September 22, shares go ex on September 23 and payment is on October 7.
The number of individuals holding ETFs on B3 rose from 639 thousand in June 2025 to 862 thousand in June 2026, up 34% or 223 thousand accounts, according to the exchange. Custodied assets went from R$ 26.9 billion to R$ 35.1 billion, a 62% increase. In the year to date 140.3 thousand investors joined and 38 new ETFs were launched through July, for 213 listed funds.
Responding to a CVM request after a Veja report, Grupo Casas Bahia said it made no contributions to the IBCB FIDC in the first half of 2026 and that the balance of subordinated quotas rose from R$ 780 million to R$ 1.166 billion due to the result of the quotas themselves, of R$ 386 million. B3 demanded a schedule to bring the shares back into compliance, as they have traded below R$ 1 since July 21.
The Tokenisation Working Group delivered to the CVM board, on September 15, the draft resolution creating the CVM DLT Pilot Programme. The pilot will test issuance, offering, trading, bookkeeping, custody and settlement of shares, debentures, receivables certificates and fund quotas on distributed ledger networks, with direct real time access by the CVM to the records.
The simplified capital market access regime for companies with revenue up to R$ 500 million, in force on B3 since March 16, totalled R$ 161 million in six months, in four commercial note issuances and one debenture issuance. Issuers come from technology, media, hospitality, cosmetics and logistics.
Average daily traded volume in equities on B3 rose 26.1% in August from August 2025, to R$ 30.284 billion, and 33.8% from July. Futures traded R$ 9.608 billion a day, up 3.3%, with revenue per contract down 12.8%. The number of investors reached 5.82 million.
The S&P/B3 Ibovespa VIX, which measures expected implied volatility for the next 30 days from Ibovespa options, closed September 14 at 30.15 points, up 5.24% on the day and 17.87% in September, the highest level since the index launch on March 19, 2024, above the previous record of 29.6 points on March 27, 2026; B3 and Exame attribute the jump to the STF crisis between Moraes and Mendonça, the hearing scheduled for September 15, US-Iran tensions and the wait for the Fed and Copom decisions.
A5X, a pre-operational derivatives and futures exchange that aims to compete with B3, announced on September 14 a R$ 360 million Series D round led by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Kaszek, at a valuation of about R$ 2.7 billion, with participation from shareholders IMC, Jump Trading, Optiver, XTX Markets and ABN Amro Clearing and the entry of XP, which exercised a purchase option; the company has raised more than R$ 730 million in four rounds, says the funds cover regulatory capital and operations to breakeven, and expects to start trading in the second quarter of 2027, after tests with regulators between October and November.
B3 announced on September 11 that from Monday, September 14, it will publish the Ibovespa B3 Index in US Dollars, converting the Ibovespa at the WM/Reuters WMR rate fixed at 4pm London (noon Brasília), in two versions, closing and settlement, published on the Indices on Demand channel at the end of each session; the aim is to let foreign investors track the index in US currency.
B3 announced on September 9 that BDRs of Brazilian companies listed abroad, such as Nubank, XP and Mercado Livre, may join the Ibovespa from the first half of 2027, with a 10% cap on the theoretical portfolio and the traditional liquidity, tradability and representativeness criteria; the transition schedule will come in a circular.
Foreign investors pulled R$ 18.12 billion from B3's secondary market in August, the largest monthly outflow since January 2022, per an Elos Ayta survey of B3 data published by Exame and Poder360. The year's balance halved to R$ 18.29 billion after inflows of R$ 56.55 billion from January to April and outflows of R$ 38.26 billion from May to August.
Cade's tribunal unanimously approved on September 2 B3's purchase of 60% of receivables registrar CRDC for R$ 15 million, conditional on signing a merger-control agreement, per CNN Brasil, InfoMoney and Money Times. The deal, announced in September 2025 with the São Paulo Commercial Association, includes an option on the remaining stake from 2030.
T4F Entretenimento completed its delisting after founder Fernando Alterio's tender offer, which paid R$ 6.02 per share and lifted his stake to 79.1% of capital, per InfoMoney and Exame. CVM cancelled its public-company registration and the company leaves Novo Mercado down about 96% since its 2011 IPO.
The Carf tax court cancelled two 2015-2016 assessments against B3 totaling about R$ 2.2 billion, which questioned the treatment of FX variation on the sale of CME Group shares, per InfoMoney, Money Times and CNN Brasil. B3 said the ruling should not affect its financial statements.