After the making of the new foreign exchange market law, law no. 14.286/2021, some provisions directly impacted the complementation of certain criminal types. Among them, the crimes foreseen for in articles 16 and 22 of Law 7,492/86, stand out. Thus, studying the new law and its criminal impacts is of fundamental importance. In addition, it is necessary to analyze questions of intertemporal law, since the new law will only come into force on December 30, 2022 and contains provisions that bring beneficial criminal effects to the defendants. Therefore, in view of the future and necessary retroactivity of the most beneficial criminal law, it should be applied immediately, to also encompass the conducts practiced before it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]