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It is called the parity price of a stock at the theoretical price that it should have, after the transactions in question have been carried out. Such transactions can be: payment of cash dividends and/or dividends in shares and/or accounting revaluations and/or capitalization of reserves and/or subscription of shares.
They are tools aimed at SMEs that seek to diversify their sources of funding.
• The deferred paycheck (CPD): it is a payment order whose maturity operates after the date of issue (up to 360 days). The SME obtains financing by writing a term check, which is accepted by the beneficiary (supplier, for example), by being able to negotiate it at competitive rates in the Market, obtaining funds before its maturity.
• Electronic Credit Invoice (FCE): SMEs can negotiate on the Market the invoices they issue against large companies. They receive their funding once they are entered into the computer trading system and are acquired by investors who advance the funds and who will then collect the amount owed by the large company.
• Promissory Notes: it is a promise of payment similar to the CPD in which between the date of issue and the date of payment there must be a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of 36 months. Trading in Securities Markets occurs when a third party buys a promissory note at a discount rate set at the time of its negotiation. In this way, whoever sells the promissory note makes the funds before the payment date. Unlike the CPD, the promissory note can not only be denominated in pesos, but also in dollars.
They must be previously backed by an authorized entity (Mutual Guarantee Company/Guarantee Funds/Financial Institutions), which acts as a guarantor in the event that the drawer cannot afford the payment of this.
Modality by which companies distribute their profits among their shareholders. The shareholders' meeting may decide to distribute them in whole or in part, in cash or through the issuance of new shares.
It is a minimum part or fraction of the share capital of a public limited company. They confer on their owner the status of partner or shareholder and establish a set of legal relationships between the owner and the company. They belong to the category of equity instruments because the investor, at the time of buying them, does not know the future cash flow he will receive for his investment.
It is the way in which the issuer returns the capital to the holder, also called nominal value. Periodic and partial returns of capital can be made, or a single payment can be stipulated on the due date, according to the schedule predetermined in the issue prospectus.
It is a fixed income debt instrument issued by private entities: joint stock companies, cooperatives, civil associations incorporated in the country and branches of joint stock companies incorporated abroad. It represents a loan agreement between the company and the investor. The conditions of issue may vary from one to the other and are specified in the issue prospectus.
It represents the amount of capital that the issuer must repay to the bondholder, either in installments (amortizations) or in a single payment upon maturity.
They are debt instruments. They are also called marketable fixed income securities, since at the time of acquiring them, the investor knows the conditions under which the issuer will return the capital and the stipulated interest. They can be issued by the National State, Provinces or Municipalities and be denominated in different currencies (pesos, dollars, euros).
Holders of tradable securities in accounts opened directly in the registry managed by CVSA.
The trading system is Millennium, an electronic securities trading platform, which responds to offers to buy and sell entered from each of the workstations to the computer network of the Trading System. Transactions are automatically arranged following the price-time priority principle and are guaranteed by BYMA's liquidation.
Settlement and Clearing Agents (ALyC) are the parties involved in the liquidation and clearing of transactions (primary placement and secondary negotiation), either for themselves or for their clients.
An Integral Placement and Distribution Agent (ACDI) is an entity authorized by the CNV to subscribe and redeem shares of mutual funds (FCI) on behalf and order of its clients. The shares subscribed by each investor through the ACDI, a direct link with the FCI, are registered in Caja de Valores.
The holder of a tradable securities custody account opened through an intermediary at Caja de Valores S.A.
Yes, it exists and it is concluded between CVSA and a Depositor, according to which the receipt of the securities by CVSA generates the obligation to deliver to the depositor an equal amount of securities of the same kind, class and issuer.
Entities authorized to be participants in Caja de Valores S.A. for the purpose of maintaining custody of their own or their clients' negotiable securities in the collective deposit system.
A natural and/or legal person authorized by the CNV to cover the activities of negotiation, placement, distribution, brokerage, liquidation and clearing, collective custody and deposit of negotiable securities, administration and custody of collective investment products, risk rating, and all other activities that, at the discretion of the CNV, should be registered.
It is a public or private entity that offers negotiable securities to investors for the purpose of obtaining financing.
It is an entity authorized by the CNV to receive negotiable securities in collective deposit, to guard them, to act in the liquidation of transactions, to pay credits to their holders, to keep the register of shareholders of the issuers, to keep a record of shares of open mutual funds, among other activities.
These are the financial instruments that capital markets make available to investors. These materialize the financing obtained by companies and the public sector (the bidders) through the acquisition by investors (the plaintiffs), and which can then be negotiated between other investors. Examples of this are stocks, bonds and negotiable bonds.
It is an entity in which buyers (demand) and sellers (supply) of negotiable securities are found. Buying and selling transactions are managed through intermediaries called Member Agents.
The Argentine Stock Exchange System is a group of institutions that provide the operating framework for carrying out different stock market operations. It is composed of a supervisory body (National Securities Commission), a Central Depositary Agent for Tradable Securities (Caja de Valores S.A.), a Market that liquidates and clears transactions for the purchase and sale of negotiable securities (BYMA) and the Agents through whom these transactions are arranged (ALyC).
It is the area where negotiable securities or other instruments are publicly offered, through the negotiation of authorized agents, with the objective of channeling savings towards productive investment.
Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos S.A. (BYMA) is a stock exchange authorized by the CNV that provides investors with a trading platform so that, through member Agents (ALyC), they can buy or sell tradable securities previously authorized by the supervisory body.
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