Market Infrastructure

BEE4 is Brazil’s first digital central depository focused on the SME access market. Our infrastructure records transfers and is responsible for the safekeeping of securities issued by listed companies, ensuring security, transparency, and efficiency throughout the entire trading cycle.

What does a depository institution do?

Centralized safekeeping and custody

Secure maintenance of issued assets within a centralized environment.

Ownership control

Registration of each asset and full history of all transfers.

Corporate actions processing

Calculation and allocation of payments such as interest, dividends, or amortizations.

Settlement support

Execution of the final transfer of asset ownership between parties and via clearing systems.

Which market participants interact with the depository institution?

Banks, intermediaries, and financial institutions

Use BEE4’s infrastructure to register and process securities traded by their clients, ensuring assets are centrally held and securely managed.

Custodians

Represent investors within the depository system, maintaining client accounts, recording their securities positions, and processing asset transfers.

Bookkeepers

Responsible for the official registration of securities holders, maintaining updated shareholder or debenture holder records and supporting corporate actions management.

Trustee agents

Represent investors in debt issuances, overseeing compliance with issuance terms and protecting the rights of security holders.

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What does an organized OTC market do?

Company listings

Responsible for reviewing company documentation for listing, verifying regulatory requirements, and admitting assets for trading in the market.

Public offerings

Infrastructure for the registration and issuance of assets (debt or equity), where companies can conduct public offerings in a transparent manner under regulatory supervision.

Secondary trading

A trading environment where investors can buy and sell issued assets. Order interaction enables proper price formation in a transparent market setting.

Asset Registration

Centralize and validate information for all executed transactions.

Who uses the OTC market?

Banks, brokerages, and distributors

Intermediaries that connect to the BEE4 market to enable their investors to trade SME assets.

Issuers

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that issue debt or equity, listing their assets on the BEE4 market.

Investors

Trade assets in the BEE4 market by placing buy and sell orders through intermediaries such as banks and brokerages.

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