BME: Over 70 Latin American Companies Will Be Represented At The 9th Latibex Forum - David Vegara, Secretary Of State For The Economy, To Open The Forum, At Which The Chairpersons Of The Main Spanish Companies With Investments In The Region Will Be Prese

David Vegara, Secretary of State for the Economy, will open tomorrow the 9th Latibex Forum, hosted by BME, which will take in Madrid over the next three days. More than 70 Latin American companies and around 500 major figures from the national and international financial community will attend the event.

The opening will be presided over by Antonio Zoido, Chairman, BME, and Francisco González, Chairman of BBVA, Ignacio Sánchez Galán, Chairman of Iberdrola, Antonio Brufau, Chairman of Repsol-YPF and César Alierta, Chairman of Telefónica will also be there. At the closure of the Forum, Miguel Angel Villanueva, the financial representative of Madrid's city council, will say a few words to the public.

The relevance and the number of the attending companies and political institutions make this Forum the main gathering of its type in Europe.

The first day will feature such panels as "Latibex: nuevos desarrollos y oportunidades" and "Colombia; nuevas oportunidades de inversión en Latinoamérica", with a keynote speech by Camilo Zea Gómez, Chairman of Colombia's stock market regulator.

Of note on the second day is the panel "América Latina frente al crecimiento de India y China", which will be coordinated by Javier Santiso, Co-Head of the OECD Development Centre. During lunch the Corporate Governance in Latin America awards will be given by Garrigues / Affinitas.

Another two major panels of the event will be "Transparencia empresarial y comunicación en Amércia Latina" and "Latinoamérica: un buen riesgo para invertir", with Enrique García, Chairman of the Confederación Andina de Fomento and Ricardo Blanco Martínez, Managing Director of MAPFRE.

During the three days of the Forum, one-to-one meetings will take place between investors and companies to allow the former to get to know the corporations more in depth and help companies test the potential of the European market as a source of finance. Latibex, the link between stock markets in Europe and Latin America, is the third biggest market for Latin American stocks by market capitalisation.

Latibex is going to host, for the third consecutive year, a conference geared to retail investors, the aim of which is to explore in detail the different investment alternatives offered by Latin American companies quoted in Euro.