B3 hereby informs you that on Thursday, November 14, 2024, it will hold a validation test of the Business Continuity Plan for the PUMA Trading System (BCPPUMA), as announced in External Communication 007/2024-VNC, dated February 22, 2024.

B3 developed BCP PUMA to allow positions, and the risk stemming from them, to be reduced. We use alternative mechanisms to execute trades and send them on to post-trade in cases where the PUMA Trading System becomes unavailable at the primary and secondary data processing centers during the trading session and cannot be restored on the same day.

The brokerage houses authorized for trading at Listed B3 must participate in at least two PCO PUMA test validations during the year, as set forth in External Communication 007/2024-VNC, dated February 22, 2024.

Full trading participants must access BCP PUMA through their internet link, using the address https://pcopuma.b3.com.br:8197/#/login, entering the same login and password used by supervising traders to access to ePUMA, as described in the Portuguese-language document PCO PUMA – Guia do Participante (PCO PUMA – Participant Guide) available on the B3 Extranet.