Mexican Stock Exchange Mexican Stock Exchange The Mexican Stock Exchange (), commonly known as Mexican Bolsa, Mexbol, or BMV, is one of two stock exchanges in Mexico, the other being BIVA - Bolsa Institucional de Valores . It is the second largest stock exchange in Latin America, only after São Paulo based B3 in Brasil. It is also the fifth largest stock exchange in the Americas. The exchange platform is owned by BMV Group, which also owns the derivative exchange "MexDer" and the custody agency "Indeval". The BMV was created out of the merger of the three stock exchanges which formerly operated in
Rancho Bolsa de San Cayetano Alameda in 1842. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Bolsa de San Cayetano was filed by José de Jesús Vallejo with the Public Land Commission in 1852 and confirmed by the US District Court in 1856. Vallejo unsuccessfully appealed the official survey to the US Supreme Court, and the grant was patented in 1865. A claim for half of the grant to José Dolores Pico was filed