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Bolsa de Valores de Colombia | |
Type | Stock Exchange |
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Location | Bogotá, Colombia |
Founded | November 23, 1928 |
Key people | Rafael Aparicio Escallon (Chairman) Juan Pablo Córdoba (CEO) |
Currency | Colombian peso |
No. of listings | 89 |
Market cap | US$ 236 billion[1] |
Indices | COLCAP |
Website | www |
The Colombia Securities Exchange (Spanish: Bolsa de Valores de Colombia, bvc) is a stock exchange which was created as a result of merging three independent stock exchanges: Bogotá (Bolsa de Bogotá, 1928), Medellín (Bolsa de Medellín, 1961) and Occidente (Bolsa de Occidente, Cali, 1983). It has offices in Bogotá, Medellín and Cali. Furthermore, with the bvc Training Centers the company is located in 19 Colombian cities through agreements with universities and chambers of commerce.
As an infrastructure provider and securities issuer, the bvc is overseen by the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia. Its main function is to be financing alternative for the productive system, through direct investment. The bvc does not have regulatory or oversight functions.