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Jul 23, 2026
rghosh@vixio.com
Argentina
Ministry of Justice and Human Rights
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2248 charsArgentina's National Securities Commission Strengthens Transparency Standards in Primary Securities Offerings
On July 17, 2026, Argentina's National Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional de Valores or CNV) introduced regulatory modifications to enhance transparency, supervision, and investor protection in primary securities offerings through General Resolution 1157 (RG N°1157).
Roberto E. Silva, CNV president, said the initiative emerged from the CNV's supervisory experience and identified the need for regulatory precision across primary offering stages. The modifications introduce new regulatory definitions including "Participating Agent," "Participating Subjects," "Placing Agents," and "Lead Placing Agent" or "Bookrunner," clarifying the functions and responsibilities of participants in primary offering processes. The rules apply to primary offerings of negotiable obligations and shares, and where applicable, to offerings of units in closed-end investment funds and financial trusts.
Key amendments include enhanced allocation transparency requiring prospectuses to identify who determines pricing and allocation procedures, with specified auction opening and closing times. The CNV restricts proprietary account orders from placing agents to 45 minutes before book closure in public auctions and prohibits practices affecting price formation transparency. For book-building processes, proprietary account manifestations of interest are conditional on insufficient competing interest. The regulations prohibit placing agents from charging investors additional commissions, preventing duplicate charges when they already receive issuer compensation.
Markets and placing agents must report to the CNV within two days of closing using a standardized format (Annex I), with lead placing agents simultaneously submitting documentary support for allocation decisions. The CNV gains direct, real-time access to market trading systems for primary offerings. The regulations reduce the timeframe for demonstrating placement efforts from 15 to 10 business days and eliminate redundant initial subscriber documentation requirements for financial trusts.
These modifications apply to primary offerings of negotiable securities issued by the nation, provinces, municipalities, and multilateral credit organizations where Argentina holds membership.
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3285 charsArgentina's National Securities Commission Proposes to Strengthen Transparency Standards in Primary Securities Offerings
On July 22, 2026, Argentina's National Securities Commission (CNV) published General Resolution No. 1157 , opening a public consultation on proposed amendments to the CNV Regulations governing primary placement processes for negotiable securities. The resolution applies to primary placements of negotiable bonds and shares and, where relevant, units in closed-end mutual funds and financial trusts.
The proposed amendments introduce the following changes:
New regulatory definitions: The concepts of "Participating Agent", "Participating Parties", "Placement Agents", "Lead Underwriter" and "Bookrunner" are introduced to more precisely define the functions and responsibilities of entities involved in primary placement processes.
Enhanced prospectus disclosure requirements: The prospectus, supplement or final offer document must identify who is responsible for determining the price, rate, IRR, yield or other cut-off financial variable and the allocation process, describe the procedure for receiving offers, and specify the start and end times of the auction or book-building process.
Restrictions on proprietary trading by placement agents: In auctions or public tenders, placement agents may only submit proprietary trading orders up to 45 minutes before the close of the order book or auction mechanism, and must refrain from practices that affect price formation transparency. In book-building processes, expressions of interest from a placement agent's proprietary portfolio are conditional upon insufficient expressions of interest having been received for the offered amount and no other bidders being displaced; such expressions may not be submitted through foreign placement agents.
Prohibition on charging investors fees: Placement agents are prohibited from receiving commissions or additional fees from investors for their participation in the placement process.
Standardised reporting requirements: Markets and, subsidiarily, participating agents must report to the CNV using a uniform format (Annex I) and within two business days of placement closing, the list of successful bidders and clients. The lead underwriter must simultaneously submit documentation supporting the allocation decision. These reporting obligations extend to placements of securities issued by sovereign, provincial, municipal and multilateral entities that fall outside the scope of the Capital Markets Law.
Expanded public disclosure of placement results: The minimum information to be published on the closing day is expanded to include the rate, price, IRR, yield or other cut-off variable, amount awarded, relevant dates and proration factor, among other data.
CNV direct access to primary placement systems: Exchanges must provide the CNV with direct, real-time access to the computer systems used for primary placements, covering offers, modifications, cancellations, allocations and other placement events.
Simplified deadlines: The deadline for evidencing placement efforts is reduced from 15 to 10 business days, and the requirement to submit the "Initial Subscribers" form for financial trusts is eliminated.
Respondents must submit comments within 15 days via the CNV website . The resolution comes into force the day following its publication in the official gazette.