Bolsa de Valores de Nicaragua and issuers of securities. The specific regulatory frame of exchange activity is conformed by Presidential Decree 33-93 or "Reglamento General sobre Bolsas de Valores" (General Stock Market Regulations). The president of the exchange as of 2006 is Dr. Raúl A. Lacayo Solórzano. Bolsa de Valores de Nicaragua Bolsa de Valores de Nicaragua (Stock Exchange of Nicaragua, or BVDN) was created in 1994 and is the only stock exchange operating in Nicaragua. The exchange is the result of private sector initiatives encouraging the country's market liberalization programmes, which began in 1990. Trading operations officially began on January 31, 1994, and as
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