BEC has as its main goals to create the suitable place and time for negotiations, and to act as a bridge in the financial field through different activities such as the purchase and sale of financial instruments. The BEC allowed to contact buyers and sellers in an effort to finance various types of businesses.
Thus, BEC becomes in a major factor which functions are to allow the growing and to provide legal security based on securities market regulations and the same stock exchange.
From its beginnings in 1989, BEC's main feature has been the offering of newfangled services that satisfy the market's changing needs.
Products and services that BEC offers have been developed following the highest international standards, and under strict security patterns compatible with Chilean Securities and Insurance Supervisor regulations.
BEC has a variety of real time electronic transaction systems, which enable stock exchange and over-the-counter securities brokers to operate in the market without physically attending to a trading. This system reduces costs and the different brokers can access to multiple related services such as the interconnection with other markets.
From its opening, BEC has been the point of reference of regional financial market modernization. Thanks to the use of high technology, nowadays BEC has attained a position in Chile and Latin American as one of the drivers of the change.