Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (; BME) is the Spanish company that deals with the organizational aspects of the Spanish

stock exchange A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments. Stock exchanges may also provide facilities for t ...

s and financial markets, which includes the stock exchanges in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

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and

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

. In addition to the trading of

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and

bond Bond or bonds may refer to: Common meanings * Bond (finance), a type of debt security * Bail bond, a commercial third-party guarantor of surety bonds in the United States * Chemical bond, the attraction of atoms, ions or molecules to form chemical ...

s, BME offers access to a number of other products ( warrants, trackers) and the clearing and

settlement Settlement may refer to: * Human settlement, a community where people live *Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building *Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction *Settlement (fin ...

of operations. BME is also developing a technological consultancy, operating in 23 countries and mainly providing trading systems. BME owns the stocks exchanges of

and

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as well as Latibex, the only international market for Latin American securities, and the company Openfinance, a provider of technology in the wealth management industry. BME also holds a participation in the Cámara de Riesgo Central de Contraparte of

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the ...

and the

Mexican Stock Exchange The Mexican Stock Exchange ( es, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores), commonly known as Mexican Bolsa, Mexbol, or BMV, is one of two stock exchanges in Mexico, the other being BIVA - Bolsa Institucional de Valores. It is the second largest stock exchange ...

. BME has been a listed company since 14 July 2006 and an IBEX 35 constituent since July 2007 until December 2015. As of 2019, it is among the smallest of Europe’s exchanges with a market capitalisation of 2.1 billion euros ($2.32 billion), less than half of

Euronext Euronext N.V. (short for European New Exchange Technology) is a pan-European bourse that offers various trading and post-trade services. Traded assets include regulated equities, exchange-traded funds (ETF), warrants and certificates, bonds, ...

’s 5.2 billion euros. In 2020,

Six Group SIX operates the infrastructure for the Swiss financial centre. The company provides services relating to securities transactions, the processing of financial information, payment transactions and is building a digital infrastructure. The company ...

, that already owns the Swiss Stock Exchange finalised the purchase of BME.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bolsas Y Mercados Espanoles Spanish companies established in 2002 Companies based in Madrid Financial services companies established in 2002 Financial services companies of Spain Companies listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange 2006 initial public offerings 2020 mergers and acquisitions

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