Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos – BYMA

Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos – BYMA

Ernesto Allaria - Chairman

Ernesto Allaria - Chairman

Authorities

Chairman
Ernesto Allaria

Vice-Chairman
Nicolás Caputo

Secretary
Luis E. Alvarez

Treasurer
Alexander Zawadzki

Board of Directors

Regular Directors
Ernesto Allaria
Nicolás Caputo
Luis E. Alvarez
Héctor Orlando
Alexander Zawadzki
Eduardo Tapia
Gabriel Martino
Hector Scasserra
Paulo Belluschi
Marcelo Menéndez
Jose Anunciado Cirillo
Adelmo Gabbi

Alternate Directors
Ezequiel Carballo
Gonzalo de la Serna
Andrés Servente
Claudio Behr
Jorge García
Fernando Terrile
Gonzalo Becerra
Valentín Galardi
Damián M. Mindlin
Carlos Arecco
Francisco Ribeiro Mendonca
Cristiano Rattazzi

General Manager or CEO
Gonzalo Pascual Merlo

25 de Mayo 359, 9th floor
(1002) Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Phone: 54 (11) 4316-6000
www.byma.com.ar

Main products and markets

  • Shares
  • (Government and Corporate) Fixed Income
  • Deferred Payment Checks
  • Derivatives
  • CEDEARs
  • Repos & Carry-overs
  • Options exercise
  • Securities lending

Main shareholders

Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos S.A. shares capital is represented by 76,250,000 common document share with a nominal value of $1 (one peso) with the right of one vote per share. The 60% of the shareholders of BYMA are MERVAL shareholders. Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires owns the remaining 40% and after the statutory provisions of Comisión Nacional de Valores must proceed to the disinvestment of a 20% during 2017. With the birth of BYMA a 99.6% of Caja de Valores is added, making this way the vertical integration of the operative cicle of the shares market.

Trading hours

Market/product
Schedule
Price Time Priority
11:00 to 17:00
SENEBI
11:00 to 17:00

Brief history

 » Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos – BYMA

At the beginning of the 1920s, within the context of a world financial crisis and the ensuing need to provide market transactions with enhanced safety, the professional association of Commission Brokers (now called Broker-Dealers and Brokerage Firms) decided to create a more efficient institution to guarantee and settle trades. Thus, the Securities and Foreign Exchange Market was born on March 5, 1929.

After the world financial crash in 1949, the Securities and Foreign Exchange Market was subject to a corporate reorganization that gave way to the establishment of the Mercado de Valores de Buenos Aires S.A. (MERVAL) on January 16, 1950.

Briefly, MERVAL performed trading, clearing house, central counterparty, and self-regulatory functions through its own rule-making, stock watch, risk management, research, training, and disclosure practices, as well as its auditing.

The paradigm change, stablished by the new law of sotck markets, layed the foundations for the creation of the new Stock Exchange: BYMA – Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos S.A.

 

Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos (BYMA)

As a consequence of the aproval of the Sotck Market Law and all in accordance with itself, MERVAL and Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires (BCBA) decided to shape a new entity, named BYMA, and therefore managed to unify the argentinian stock market, improving its efficency, and situate again Argentina as an international financial center. Its important to point that BYMA will be the stockholder controling Caja de Valores (CVSA), who is the central depositary in the country.

This new company aspires to holding agreements, thanks to the management and the talent of all participants envolved, leting the joining of an irrefutable path and the resources provided with the convergence of MERVAL, BCBA, CVSA and other sotck markets of the country; which will position BYMA as an unquestionable leader in the capital makert from Argentina. The name chosen for the institution reveal the wish in a common, federal and embracing destiny.

Organization chart

Organization chart

Clearing, settlement and depositary services

BYMA, is entrusted with the clearing and settlement of securities traded thereon. Its trade settlement system is fully compliant with international recommendations issued by the G-30, IOSCO, WFE, and CCP12 standards.

The main settlement features are as follows: trade confirmation since T+0 until T+1; settlement from T+0 until T+3; once settlement is completed, DVP occurs. Transactions have settlement assurance; multilateral clearing; the possibility to refer obligations to indirect participants. In order to facilitate settlement, MERVAL provides for securities lending and borrowing; securities FOP delivery; and the possibility to settle transactions through other foreign clearing houses.

Securities depository services are in charge of Caja de Valores S.A.

Central counterpart - CCP

In its capacity as Clearing House and Central Counterparty, BYMA performs trade settlement, multilateral clearing and netting for a specified maturity date on behalf of each brokerage firm; it defines a single securities, as well as funds, position either to collect or to pay; it settles trades following the DVP principle and, as a CCP, BYMA settles the transactions guaranteed by such market.

Member of the following organizations

  • Ibero-American Federation of Exchanges (FIAB) – 1973
  • World Federation of Exchanges  (WFE) – 1972
  • Americas’ Central Securities Depositories Association (ACSDA) – 1999
  • Global Association of Central Counterparties (CCP12) – 2009

Agreements with other Exchanges

  • No agreements.

Edited by FIAB Secretariat. The information referred to member exchanges and markets compiled in this Handbook has been provided to FIAB by these entities and is updated up to July 2023. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this edition is accurate at the time of its publication. FIAB Secretariat cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions.