Bolsas y Mercados Españoles

Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Sociedad Holding de Mercados y Sistemas Financieros, S.A.

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Finance
Founded	1831 (1831)
Headquarters	Madrid, Spain
Key people	Juan Ramón Flames Omarrementaría (CEO)
Services	Equity trading platforms, derivatives and fixed income markets, clearing, market data and technology
Revenue	311,966,000 euro (2024)
Number of employees	1033 (2024)
Parent	SIX Group
Website	www.bolsasymercados.es

Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbolsas i meɾˈkaðos espaˈɲoles]; BME or BME Group) is the Spanish company that deals with the organizational aspects of the Spanish stock exchanges and financial markets. It is owned by SIX Group.

BME owns the stocks exchanges of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao as well as Latibex, an international market for Latin American securities, and the company Openfinance, a provider of technology in the wealth management industry. In addition, BME holds a participation in the Cámara de Riesgo Central de Contraparte of Colombia and the Mexican Stock Exchange.¹

BME also owns and operates BME Clearing, a central counterparty clearing house, and Iberclear, a central securities depository. Iberclear was formed in 2003 by merger of the Bank of Spain's book-entry system (known as CADE, for Central de Anotaciones de Deuda Pública) ant the stock exchange's Securities Clearing and Settlement Service (SCLV, for Sistema de Compensación y Liquidación de Valores).²

BME has been a listed company since 14 July 2006 and an IBEX 35 constituent since July 2007 until December 2015. As of 2019, it was among the smallest of Europe's exchanges with a market capitalisation of 2.1 billion euros ($2.32 billion), less than half of Euronext's 5.2 billion euros.³⁴⁵

In 2020, SIX Group, owner of the Swiss Stock Exchange, finalised the purchase of BME.⁶