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

Actinver brings share trading within the reach of all in Mexico

Actinver, a long‑established Mexican brokerage and part of Grupo Financiero del Sureste, had used LANSA on the AS/400 since 1991 for its internal trading systems. When 2000 regulations formally recognized the Internet for broker‑customer communication, Actinver was tasked with quickly delivering low‑cost online trading—extending its system to the Web in about three months to become the first broker in Mexico to offer live online trading.

Using LANSA/Visual LANSA to extend the existing AS/400 core (changing just 20 of 624 programs and adding 10), Actinver launched Bursanet, a fully automated web trading service that runs the same validations as the internal system and transmits orders to the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores. The service guarantees execution in under 60 seconds (typically ~30 seconds), cut transaction processing from 30 minutes to 30 seconds, lowered costs with industry‑leading handling rates, attracted many new investors, and increased trading volume.

Actinver

Ricardo Hernandez Diaz

Chief Information Officer