Organized by the Panamanian Stock Exchange, the event will be held on 19 August in the country's capital.
The forum will take place in the Hotel Sheraton's Great Hall in Panama City.
Participating organizations include the major publicly traded companies from Panama and Central America who will present their financial results and growth forecasts.
The audience will be made up of 400 investors, financial instutions and administrators from the capital, giving people the opportunity to learn about the region's markets and network with its key players.
Exchanges from Costa Rica (BNV), El Salvador (BVES) and Panama (BVP) start a new work session with the hopes of advancing with the integration plan.
Today and tomorrow, managers of the Exchanges will discuss the operational part of the trading platform, the single scree and remote operators, as well as legal and regulatory topics.
An integrated Central American Stock Exchange could start to operate next year, said the president of the Panama Stock Exchange
Regulatory and technical obstacles will be resolved, probably in the next few months, clearing the way for a single trading platform for Panama, Costa Rica and El Salvador, said Ricardo Arango in an interview during a conference in Panama City yesterday.
Multibank, a private bank with Panamanian capital, and the Sociedad Inversion Inmobiliaria Balboa, which belongs to the Costa Rica Group Financiero Improsa, plan to join the stock exchange.
Executive vice-president of Multibank, Isaac Btesh, said that the registration and approval of common stocks from the bank are awaiting the OK from the National Stock Commission.
The securities markets of El Salvador, Panama, and Costa Rica have signed a letter of intent to advance the process of creating the Alliance of Central American Markets (Alianza de Mercados Centroamericanos, AMERCA).
"The vision is to lower transaction costs for the issuer and the investor and to be a communication channel, where they can invest in the three markets at the same time," said Rolando Duarte, president of the El Salvador Securities Exchange.