The Palacio de la Bolsa will be the setting on Tuesday, November 17, for the launch event of IberoCap, a new Ibero-American business gathering that will bring together companies, investors, advisors, financial entities and analysts to discuss the key challenges and opportunities for the region.
From Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), they told Europa Press that IberoCap picks up the baton from the historic Foro Latibex, which for more than twenty years acted as a connection point between major Latin American corporations and European capital.
With this new stage, BME wants to “send the message” to the SMEs of Ibero-America that BME Growth is the ideal bridge not only to channel investment into Spain and Europe, but also the appropriate route to capture the capital needed to drive their business projects.
“We believe that [...] the market can offer these medium and small Ibero-American companies the ‘hub’ they need for financing, for visibility, just as we have done with Spanish SMEs by creating BME Growth a few years ago,” said Francisco José Formariz, director of commercial and market development for equities at BME.
Along the same lines, he stressed that the advantages that BME Growth currently provides to lower and mid-cap Spanish companies, such as a more flexible regulatory framework or requirements tailored to their liquidity, will extend to Ibero-American companies that choose to join this market.
With this goal in mind, the IberoCap event, which will take place in two days at Plaza de la Lealtad, number 1, will include specific panels on legal, financial and logistical advisory services to encourage companies in the region to make the leap to this side of the Atlantic.
Formariz emphasized that Spain remains the second preferred destination outside Latin America for investors from that area, only behind the United States, as reflected in a cumulative investor ‘stock’ close to 80,000 million dollars (72,600 million euros).
Likewise, he focused on the interest that post-Maduro Venezuela and Argentina arouse among investors, a country which in October 2027 will have to decide whether President Javier Milei renews his term for a second period. Both markets will have a specific panel at IberoCap or local experts among the speakers.
"Investors for a long time now have known the environments with the highest risk because geopolitically the world has changed in recent years. At first it was a 'shock', but now [...] they are managing risks in a very stable way," Formariz has summarized.
IberoCap counts as principal sponsor with Banco Santander and as promoters with Cuatrecasas, Renta 4 and Armanext. They also participate as collaborating entities the Instituto BME, ICEX, CFA Society Spain, Consejo Empresarial Alianza por Iberoamérica (Ceapi), Asociación Empresarial México-España, Cámara de Comercio Brasil-España, Instituto Español de Analistas, Embajada de México en España, Atribus and the Asociación de Empresas de Asesoramiento Financiero (Aseafi).