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- Bolsa de Valores de Colombia S.A. is a financial market infrastructure operator that administers the securities, derivatives, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets in Colombia. Founded in 2001 through the merger of the Bogotá, Medellín, and Occidente stock exchanges and headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia, the company operates as an operating subsidiary of Holding Bursátil Regional S.A., known as nuam exchange. Bolsa de Valores de Colombia S.A. serves institutional investors, commercial banks, brokerage firms, corporate issuers, and retail participants across the financial sector. The company provides a comprehensive range of products and services across the capital markets value chain, including: listing and registration services for equities, sovereign bonds, corporate debt instruments, exchange-traded funds, and structured securities; electronic trading and transaction routing platforms, including the X-Stream trading engine, for equities, fixed-income instruments, financial derivatives, and spot and derivative foreign exchange contracts; clearing, settlement, risk management, and central counterparty services through its subsidiary Cámara de Riesgo Central de Contraparte de Colombia; securities custody, depository administration, and asset servicing through its central securities depository subsidiary Depósito Centralizado de Valores; market data distribution, financial benchmark management, index calculation including the MSCI COLCAP index, and price vendor and asset valuation services via its subsidiary Precia; and OTC interdealer brokerage and financial technology connectivity solutions via SET-ICAP. In recent developments, Bolsa de Valores de Colombia S.A. executed a strategic multi-market corporate integration with the Santiago Stock Exchange of Chile and the Lima Stock Exchange of Peru to create nuam exchange, unifying the three domestic markets into a single regional capital market holding company. As part of this reorganization, the exchange has entered strategic technology agreements, including a partnership with Nasdaq to deploy a standardized multi-asset trading platform across the member exchanges, while harmonizing regulatory, clearing, and operational frameworks to enable cross-border order routing, shared liquidity pools, and interoperable post-trade infrastructure across Colombia, Chile, and Peru.