Capital Market

Welcome to the Securities Market Audit Office’s link, a means for ensuring the efficiency, equity, security and transparency of the securities market.

For this reason, you can find here information regarding the scope of AGMVM’s responsibilities, in particular in the areas of supervision, regulation, cooperation and promotion of the market.

AGMVM

Created under the responsibility of BCV’s Governor, the Securities Market Audit Office (AGMVM) is the service responsible for supervising the securities market, in accordance with Article 5 (1) of the securities code approved by decree-law. No. 1/2012, dated 27 January, republished on 3 April. Its mission is to supervise and regulate the securities and derivative financial instruments markets (traditionally known as “stock exchange markets”) and the activity of all agents that operate on them.

Communiqués and Administrative Offenses

AGMVM decisions with public interest or other information approved by it obey the principle of advertising, so that all those who, in one way or another, deal with or are interested in this market are aware of relevant facts within the scope of AGMVM’s work.

In this area you will find all of AGMVM's communiqués to the market, the events held as part of the securities market, and all the administrative offenses applied to market participants.

Information Dissemination System

The information disclosed under the duties provided for in the legislation and regulations in force is the sole responsibility of the entities to which it relates.

Treasury Securities

Legislation and Regulation

In this area, the AGMVM provides market operators, investors and users in general with the national and international legislation and complementary laws of great importance in the area of the securities market, in order to allow easy access, dissemination of knowledge and application of the legislation.

These rules should be checked in addition to the Official Bulletins where they were published.

Publications

The Investor Guide (Guia do Investidor) is a publication by the Securities Market Audit Office (AGMVM) that contains a synthetic explanation of the functioning of the securities and derivative financial instruments markets and a brief description of their main players.

Additionally, two individual booklets based on the legal provisions of the Securities Market Code, revoked in 2012, and a set of general recommendations for investors in general, are presented.

The Guide is intended for anyone who wants to gain some knowledge about the functioning of the securities markets and about the rights and duties that they enjoy when investing their savings in securities or other financial instruments.

If you have any questions, you can contact the AGMVM, either by phone (+238) 2607000 or (+238) 2607171, Fax (+238) 2607079 or email, at agmvm@bcv.cv.

This guide indicates various ways of contacting the AGMVM.

Investor Area