CAIXA ECONÔMICA FEDERAL is a financial institution created as a public company, bound to the Ministry of Finance, acting throughout the national territory.
The institution integrates the National Financial System and it assists on the execution of the federal government´s credit policy. Like the other financial institutions, it is subject to the decisions and the ruling order of the competent body and to the inspection of Brazil´s Central Bank.
CAIXA has twelve directors, appointed by the Administration Counsel, where one director is linked to the Vice-Presidency in charge of the management of third party assets; a director is linked to the Vice-Presidency in charge of the management or operationalization of funds, programs and services entrusted by the federal government; a legal director linked to the Chairmanship of CAIXA, who is in charge of the supervision and coordination of the legal activities in general and of the legal representation of CAIXA, as in the Statute; and nine directors linked to each of the vice-presidents who compose the Managing Counsel.
The CAIXA Statute also regulates the Fiscal Counsel, which is composed of five effective members (and substitutes), chosen by the State Minister of Finance. It is the duty of the Fiscal Counsel to carry out the attributions regarding its inspection power, among them: to inspect the actions of the managers, checking the fulfillment of its legal and statutory duties, and to examine the CAIXA´s semiannual and annual financial statements.
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