Collateral, Haircut and Limits

Frequently Asked Questions
QUOTAS
You may consult your quota for Caution from Gara > quotas > agent consumption, once all the positions have been distributed.
Additionally, you may consult it in Annex I of Circular 3572 on BYMA's website. "Table of Equity Segments"
You may consult your Operating quota by requesting it with the Risk team through the enabled communication channels. At the time of the agent's registration, the initial allocation of its operating quota will be determined by its surety quota, established in Circular 3572.
CONSUMPTIONS
Your Surety Quota is consumed by the open positions, you can consult it in Gara>Quotas>Agent Consumption.
Your Operating quota is consumed by all the orders you enter on the screen, whether they are pending or have already been arranged. Please note that this quota considers all guaranteed operating forms, not just cash.
CALCULATION GROUP
Must send the balance sheets and latest updated and certified Financial Statements (Request additional information)
They must consider that both for the excesses in their global quota and for the excesses in the quotas by species they will be requested to integrate supplementary guarantees for the risk generated by the excesses.
TRADING QUOTA
In case you receive the message "Firm Level Total Order Limit Breached" and need an increase in your trading quota, you should contact BYMA - Market Risk area at +54 9 11 3312-4926 (No calls allowed), by mail at riesgo@byma.com.ar or communicate via Eikon Reuters.
If you wish to increase your operating quota permanently, please send an e-mail to riesgo@byma.com.ar indicating the final amount and an estimate of your operation (e.g.: Final amount $50,000 M, 40% Surety and 60% Cash).
You can consult the lists on this page:
Any modification in the quotas and eligible assets for each list will be reflected in the next update of the lists, in the same section of the BYMA website.
The BYMA Market Risk team recommends periodically reviewing the website to be aware of any variation in the quotas and capacities.
In case there is a difference in the quotas between GARA and the website, the quota that applies is the one on the website.
Currency: you can check the exchange rate in Gara: Administración>Tipo de Cambio.
Species: the price assigned is the closing price in 24 hs of the previous day gauged.
Treasuries: the price in dollars used is the Bloomberg MID Price at 17 hs. The peso price is the result of multiplying the dollar price by the AL30 immediate spot cable:
peso_price = dollar_price * ( close_AL30_CI/ close_AL30C_CI)
the treasury gauging (98% BILL, 96% NOTE, 94% BOND) should be applied. Thus, the gauged price results:
gauged_price = dollar_price * (close_AL30_CI/close_AL30C_CI) * gauging
Gauges: are determined based on the volatility of each species. BYMA reserves the right to modify the aforementioned gauges whenever it deems appropriate. The margins and gauges applicable to each species are detailed in Annex III: "Lists of Species Accepted as Collateral"
In case you need to qualify a new species for surety, please send the request to riesgo@byma.com.ar indicating box number and ticker in order to move forward with the analysis.
Please note that such analysis takes time. The team will perform a qualitative and quantitative analysis and, if applicable, will proceed with the registration of the species for its use.
Those Member Agents that are authorized as CIDA and have unified custody in a single depositor, may deliver FCI shares as collateral. To this effect, they must request it to the e-mail: riesgo@byma.com.ar, informing the object, name and type of FCI and amount of quotas as well as all the necessary data for the correct identification of the FCI (Box Code, CAFCI and CNV).
Replacements
In case you wish to replace a species used by one available in the same account (3, 777777777 or 888888888):
Gara > guarantees > replacement of guarantees > placing agent number and principal.
Accounts
Account 3: guarantees are required for term operations. Regarding global and species guarantees, different percentages are required on the excess of quotas. These depend on the type of excess, species and consumption, considering the established disarmament term.
In addition, guarantees will be required for its operations in overdraft option releases.
The requirements in account 3 will be recalculated daily based on the consumption at the close of the previous day.
Account 777777777: guarantees are required to guarantee the firm's terminal/operating quota. On this point, the spot operations of the last six-month period are analyzed and an initial margin is calculated to cover the possible price variation between the settlement date and the settlement by species.
The requirements will be recalculated weekly based on the results of the last stressed week.
Account 888888888: is required to integrate the contribution to the Guarantee Fund II, which arises as a result of Article 45 of Law No. 26,831 and CNV General Resolution No. 817. The methodology is available and published on Byma's website: https://www.byma.com.ar/download/25999/
Eligible Assets for Supplements -> Pesos, Dollars, Treasuries, Fixed Income Bonds Lists 0, 1, 2 and 3, and Variable Income Assets List 0.
In order to make the deposits to the supplementary accounts, you must send the securities from the corresponding custody accounts, which you must create.
In order to send (e.g.) to , you must first fund the custody account XXX/ and then, once the securities are in this account, you must send them via Gara to account 9XXX/. e.g.) to the 777777777 they must first fund the account XXX/777777777 in custody and then, once the securities are in that account, they make the entry through Gara to the account 9XXX/777777777 (From Gara: Guarantees>Balance of Guarantees>Balance Consultation).
For the movement from and to the guarantee accounts all the agents must have created their account in Custody for each principal.
In order to do this, they must create the accounts with the instructions available on the BYMA website: https://www.byma.com.ar/productos/nuevo-sistema-de-custodia/
In case they need to modify the species left in escrow for a different one, they must upload a request for change of collateral/Position Adjustment in Gara. In case they have doubts about the process, they should contact their liquidator for guidance.
Guarantee Fund II:
Circular 3572 - Forward Transactions: https://www.byma.com.ar/regulacion/circulares/Circular 3562 - Options, Lots and others: https://www.byma.com.ar/regulacion/circulares/Custody (NASDAQ): https://www.byma.com.ar/productos/nuevo-sistema-de-custodia/