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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Cabo Verde and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: 9-digit number; companies begin with “2”. Issued same-day via Empresa no Dia. Registration number: Assigned at registration; appears on the Certidão do Registo Comercial.

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Sector regulators

BCV · UIF

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How documents combine

For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below.

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Documents to collect

The physical documents you’ll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil’s Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed.

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Collection notes

  • Legal Registration: Issued same-day via Empresa no Dia at Casa do Cidadão; evidences legal existence and registration number.
  • Constitutive Documents: Private document for Lda; public deed (escritura pública) required if contributions are in kind.
  • Tax Registration: Issued by DNRE; bundled with commercial registration via Empresa no Dia.
  • Operating Permit: Issued by Câmara Municipal for retail/general trade; sector-specific variants issued by line ministries.
  • Sector-Specific License: Required for banking, insurance, capital markets, microfinance, and payment services — all supervised by BCV.
  • Ownership Records: Estatutos record the initial quota / share distribution and name founding gerentes; post-formation ownership changes are recorded via Acta de Cessão de Quotas filed at DGRNI.
  • Governance Records: Estatutos name founding gerentes/administradores; subsequent changes filed via Acta de Nomeação at DGRNI.
  • Signing Authority: Board resolution (Acta) for corporate signatories; notarised power of attorney (Procuração) for external representatives.
  • Address: Conduit universal policy: lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.
  • Good Standing: Cabo Verde does not issue a separate Certificate of Good Standing. The Certidão do Registo Comercial issued by DGRNI via Casa do Cidadão / Empresa no Dia reflects current commercial-registry status (existence, registration number, registered address, situation) and serves the active-status function. Accept a Certidão dated within 90 days.

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Person roles

When you submit a person on the application body, set their role to one of Conduit’s canonical BusinessPersonRole values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role.

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Notes

  • Cabo Verde is not OHADA; its company law is Portuguese-origin, now fully replaced by the 2019 Código das Sociedades Comerciais (Decreto-Legislativo nº 2/2019, in force 22 October 2019) — do not apply OHADA SARL/SA templates.
  • Bearer shares were abolished by the 2019 code; all shares must be nominative. Pre-2019 bearer shares were required to convert to nominative by 22 January 2021 (Miranda Advogados, October 2019 alert).
  • Apostille is available: Cabo Verde acceded to the Hague Apostille Convention (accession 7-V-2009, in force 13-II-2010 per HCCH status table).
  • The Empresa no Dia one-stop service (Casa do Cidadão counters, run by DGRNI) issues the commercial certificate, NIF, and INPS registration simultaneously for eligible structures; this compressed timeline is the default.