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US Dollar / Brazilian Real

The reference rate for the Brazilian real, one of the most liquid Latin American emerging-market currencies. Much of its price discovery takes place in exchange-traded dollar futures on B3 rather than in the spot market.

This asset is derivatives listed on the venue linked above — a typed relationship in the dataset, not a name that happened to match. The parties named after it (OTC interbank market) matter to how it trades but are not entities here.

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5.0165 BRL per USD

as of 2026-10-13 · refreshed 2026-10-13 15:17 UTC · source: ECB reference rates — used under that provider’s terms, not our CC BY 4.0 · reference value, not a real-time tick

Symbol
USDBRL
Type
Currency
Category
FX pair
Quote currency
BRL
Primary venue
B3 (Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão) · also OTC interbank market
Issuer
—
Currency pair
USD 840 / BRL 986 ISO 4217 — the two sides have codes, the pair does not
Identifier
No identifier standard exists for a currency pair. The honest identifiers are the two ISO 4217 codes below; a single code for the pair itself does not exist, and the instrument identifiers that appear to fit are for spot contracts rather than the rate.

Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.

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