Using a web platform with key information from all of the markets in the region and the Dominican Republic, Central American stock exchanges propose reviving the plan to create a truly integrated regional market.
Once again authorities at stock exchanges in Central American countries and the Dominican Republic have put back on the table the plan to integrate the stock markets in each each country into a single regional one.
In 2017, $2.494 billion was traded on the stock market, 34% more than the sum total of operations last year.
The Central Bank of Nicaragua reported that last year they observed in the stock market " ... the predominance of the national currency, representing almost 88% of total trades in different markets."
In the first eight months of the year, the volume traded in the primary market grew by almost twice as much as in the same period in 2016, driven by growing product diversification and increased investor demand.
Growth in trading in both the primary and secondary market is due mainly to a greater diversification of financial instruments, attractive returns and a growing interest from investors and companies in the stock market both in finding investment options and in seeking financing.
The market is now in its first stage of operations with transactions of government bonds and state owned institutions, which will be followed by corporate bonds.
The new link between the Central Latinoamericana de Valores Latin Clear Central and the largest global custodian of shares Euroclear allows emissions on the Panama Stock Exchange to be purchased by investors in 46 countries around the world.
Central Latinoamericana de Valores S.A. - Latinclear now offers international securities custody services in nine countries.
The head office of securities, which began operations in 1997 with the support of the Stock Exchange of Panama, Latinclear, will be introduced to the markets of Canada, Mexico, and Argentina through its Clearstream Banking account in Luxembourg.
An analysis suggests that the lack of a stock market is not the fault of businesses or investors, but of the system.
In his blog in Elfinancierocr.com, Allan Rodriguez, Founding Member and General Manager of Group CFS, analyzes in two successive posts how much costs are implied by the productive economy not having a stock market from which to obtain financing as several causes of the problem.
Costa Rican pension-fund managers can have up 40 percent of their assets in foreign markets, following a tendency that began to be noted in May.
Through April of this year, the proportion of foreign funds in Costa Rican pension schemes dropped, but since May the trend has been reversed as managers fight to raise low yields on their investments.