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I n 1994, with the approval of the Law for the Securities Market, it is given to the Superintendence of the Financial System the task to investigate the securities market and its various participants. It achieves this mission through a dependency called the Intendence of Securities. As an answer to the evolution of the securities market in our country and to the growing complexity of its operations, it turned necessary the existence of a specialized and independent  inspection entity with qualified personnel in the knowledge of the securities market, to inspect and promote it in a proper way, dictating policies and establishing approaches coherent with the balance that should exist between  the protection of investors and of the general public, and the dynamic and orderly development of the securities market.

I t is because of these considerations that in 1996 the Congress approves the Organic Law of the Superintendence of Securities and makes it an autonomous institution, regulator of the securities market. 

The creation of the Superintendence of Securities also means commitment to coordination and fluent and permanent communication with other inspection entities of the financial system, what leads to the creation of a Committee of Superintendents to give body to this coordination, a measure that guarantees an effective supervision.

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