Resumen
The Editorial Policy Committee of the Brazilian Finance Review approved to increase the number of issues per year from 3 to 4 during 2009. Thus, it is my pleasure to announce that the publication of issue 3 of volume 7 (this issue) has been anticipated from December to September of the current year and that we will publish a new issue in December. The growth in the number of submissions and the quality of the articles published enable this important step towards the consolidation of RBFin. In the beginning, in 2003, we published two issues per year, in 2008 we published 3 issues and we have already reached 4 issues per year in 2009, fulfilling one of the initial objectives of the Review which was to be a quarterly publication as soon as it consolidated. I thank the effort of all of those that helped RBFin to be the