Case Study: Grupo Financiero Actinver achieves first-in-Mexico, low-cost online stock trading with LANSA

Actinver Brings Share Trading Within the Reach of All in Mexico

Actinver, a long-established Mexican brokerage and member of Grupo Financiero del Sureste, faced a regulatory and market challenge in 2000 when new laws recognized the Internet as a legal channel for trading. Management wanted Internet services to be free or very low cost, and Actinver needed to extend its existing systems to the Web quickly while keeping validations, security and compliance intact.

Using LANSA (now Visual LANSA), Actinver updated its AS/400-based brokerage system by changing just 20 of 624 programs and adding 10 new ones, then extended the core system to the Web. The resulting Bursanet service is fully automated, preserves the same validations, guarantees execution in under 60 seconds (typically ~30s), cut processing time from 30 minutes to 30 seconds, lowered costs and fees, and attracted many new investors—significantly increasing volume and operational efficiency.

Grupo Financiero Actinver

Ricardo Hernandez Diaz

CIO