Bolsas y Mercados Españoles

Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbolsas i meɾˈkaðos espaˈɲoles]; BME) is the Spanish company that deals with the organizational aspects of the Spanish stock exchanges and financial markets, which includes the stock exchanges in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia. In addition to the trading of shares and bonds, BME offers access to a number of other products (warrants, trackers) and the clearing and settlement of operations. BME is also developing a technological consultancy, operating in 23 countries and mainly providing trading systems.

Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Sociedad Holding de Mercados y Sistemas Financieros, S.A.

Company type	Sociedad Anónima
ISIN	ES0115056139
Industry	Finance
Founded	1831
Headquarters	Madrid, Spain
Key people	Javier Hernani (CEO)
Services	Equity trading platforms, derivatives and fixed income markets, clearing, market data and technology
Revenue	€326.2 million (2010)^[1]
Operating income	€215.0 million (2010)^[1]
Net income	€154.2 million (2010)^[1]
Total assets	€31.39 billion (2010)^[1]
Total equity	€448.4 million (2010)^[1]
Owner	SIX Group
Number of employees	700 (2010)^[1]
Website	www.bolsasymercados.es

BME owns the stocks exchanges of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao 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 and the Mexican Stock Exchange.^[2]

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's 5.2 billion euros.^[3][4][5]

In 2020, Six Group, that already owns the Swiss Stock Exchange finalised the purchase of BME.^[6]

See also

•  Companies portal

• Bolsa de Madrid
• List of stock exchanges

References

1. (PDF). Bolsas y Mercados Españoles. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
2. "BME Group Companies". BME.
3. Huw Jones (November 7, 2019), Euronext CEO Boujnah says no tie-up talks with any European bourse Reuters.
4. "SIX successfully completes acquisition of controlling stake in BME" (PDF). SIX Group. 11 June 2020.^{[permanent dead link]}
5. "Quién es SIX Group y por qué quiere comprar la bolsa española". El Confidencial. 19 November 2019.
6. "SIX to Exercise the Squeeze-out Right for Remaining BME Shares | BME Bolsas y Mercados Españoles".