Bolsa de Valores de Montevideo Bolsa de Valores de Montevideo Bolsa de Valores de Montevideo, known as the Bolsa de Montevideo or as BVM, is the principal stock exchange of Uruguay. It is based in Montevideo and was founded in 1867. The Montevideo Stock Exchange (BVM) is an institution whose primary function is to provide the platform for the realization of the laying operations, trading and safekeeping of public and private securities. The placement process includes entering new values to the market, i.e., the monetary value. Trading involves the buying and selling of existing securities in the secondary market. Securities custody is a service that
Bolsa de Valores de la República Dominicana operative and belong to banking institutions. Almost 75 percent of the securities transactions are cross transactions in which both the buyer and the seller are clients of the same brokerage house. In recent years various laws were approved in an attempt to give new life to the Dominican securities market. In 2000, the Securities Market Law (SML), Law 19-00, was enacted, creating the Superintendence of Securities ("Superintendencia de Valores", SIV) as the regulatory agency of the securities market. There are 24 securities brokers and there are no registered securities agents. There is one commodities exchange in the country, the "Bolsa