Economy of Mexico banks”, bonded warehouses, bonding companies and foreign-exchange firms. A wave of acquisitions has left Mexico's financial sector in foreign hands. Their foreign-run affiliates compete with independent financial firms operating as commercial banks, brokerage and securities houses, insurance companies, retirement-fund administrators, mutual funds, and leasing companies. Mexico has a single securities market, the Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, known as the Bolsa). The market has grown steadily, with its main indices increasing by more than 600% in the last decade. It is Latin America's second largest exchange, after Brazil's. The total value of the domestic market capitalization of the
Bolsa de Valores de Montevideo as special partners. In 1996 the trading activity was favored with the appearance of the Savings Fund Administrators (AFAP ) and the Securities Market Act and Notes. The following year, the BVM developed its System Clearing, Settlement and Custody . In 2008 it began operating with the electronic Spanish Stock Market Integrated System (SIBE ) . In Uruguay in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, many enterprises began life taking capital from the market's risk. At the time nearly 50 national companies came to list its shares on the stock . Bolsa de Valores de Montevideo Bolsa de