ENTITIES
Regulators Entities

Ministry of Finance

Official entity affiliated to the Central Executive Power in charge of management of the public finance and formulation of economic and budgetary policies.

Ministry of Finance (Ministerio de Finanzas)
Telephones: (58 212) 802.10.00 / 802.20.00
Website: www.mf.gov.ve


National Securities
Commission

The National Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional de Valores - CNV) is the public organization in charge of promoting, regulating, wathching and supervising the capital market; having legal personality and its own patrimony, independent from the National State Treasury. The Comission is assigned to the Financial Ministry to the effects of the administrative trusteeship; and will benefit from tax exemptions, privileges and exemptions of fiscal, tributary and procedural order that the laws of the Republic grant to the National State Treasury. Members of the Directory Board are named by the President of the Republic.

National Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional de Valores)
Telephones: (58 212) 761.96.66 / 761.91.36 / 761.91.37
Fax: (58 212) 762.27.96 / 762.99.75
Website: www.cnv.gov.ve



Operative Entities

Caracas
Stock Exchange

Private institution open for local and foreign investors in order to offer all the necessary services to execute the transactions on issues subject to be negotiated in the market place in a continue and orderly manner providing the necessary liquidity.

Caracas Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Valores de Caracas)
Telephones: (58 212) 905.55.11 / 905.58.27
Fax: (58 212) 905.58.29 / 952.26.40
Website: www.bolsadecaracas.com


Brokerage Houses

Private corporations authorized by the National Securities Commission created to intermediate securities and offer their services in buying or selling securities to individual and corporate investors.

Venezuelan Association of Brokerage Houses (Asociación Venezolana de Casas de Bolsa - AVCB)
Telephones: (58 212) 278.53.45
Fax: (58 212) 278.45.36


Central Depositary
of Securities

Caja Venezolana de Valores (CVV), organization regulated under the Central Depositary Law, it started its operations in 1996 in order to offer services like registration and custody and settlement and compensation of securities.

Central Depositary of Securities (Caja Venezolana de Valores - CVV)
Telephones: (58 212) 905.44.29
Fax: (58 212) 905.44.40
Website: www.cajavenezolana.com


Issuing Companies

Association of Issuing Companies (Asociación Venezolana de Sociedades Emisoras de Valores - AVESEVAL)
Telephones: (58 212) 502.21.11
Fax: (58 212) 502.28.53


Public Traders
on Securities

Association of Public Traders on Securities (Asociación Venezolana de Corredores de Bolsa)
Telephones: (58 212) 263.72.44 / 263.52.44
Fax: (58 212) 261.81.51


Mutual Funds Administrators

Private corporations authorized by the National Securities Commission created to administrate the placement on investment and distribution of risk involved, where the investment attained never should represent a majority participation in either a financial or economic control.

Venezuelan Association of Mutual Funds Administrators (Asociación Venezolana de Administradoras de Fondos Mutuales - AVAF)
Telephones: (58 212) 503.28.00
Fax: (58 212) 503.27.32
Website: www.avaf.org


Transfer Agents

Private corporations authorized by the National Securities Commission responsible for the stockholder bookkeeping. They are responsible for the issuance of holder certificates on securities.

Venezuelan Association of Transfer Agents (Asociación Venezolana de Agentes de Traspaso - AVATRA)
Telephones: (58 212) 502.31.10
Fax: (58 212) 502.16.20


Investment Consultants

Private corporations authorized by the National Securities Commission created to provide assessment on investment.


Risk Qualifiers

Private corporations authorized by the National Securities Commission in order to allocate a risk level to securities from the Capital Market.


Related Entities

Venezuelan Association
of Brokerage Houses

Organization created in order to promote cooperation among its members; protect and defense their legitimate interest and rights and impulse communication and understanding among them.

Venezuelan Association of Brokerage Houses (Asociación Venezolana de Casas de Bolsa - AVCB)


Venezuelan Association
of Corporate
Issuing Companies
(Aveseval)

This organization works to enhance and promote the legal frame that channel the issuance of securities locally and overseas.

Venezuelan Association of Corporate Issuing Companies (Asociación Venezolana de Sociedades Emisoras de Valores - AVESEVAL)
Telephones: (58 212) 502.21.11
Fax: (58 212) 502.28.53



Other Entities

Venezuelan Agricultural
Products and Goods
Exchange (BOLPRIAVEN)

Existing exchange to facilitate the negotiation of agricultural derivatives.

Venezuelan Agricultural Products and Goods Exchange (Bolsa de Productos e Insumos Agropecuarios de Venezuela - BOLPRIAVEN)
Telephones: (58 212) 761.98.65 / 781.73.87 / 782.73.86
Fax: (58 212) 781.36.64
Website: www.bolpriaven.com



Address: Edificio Atrium, Piso 1, Calle Sorocaima,
entre Avenidas Tamanaco y Venezuela, Urbanización El Rosal, Caracas.
Telephone: (58 212) 905.55.11

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