1 Definition: The Stock Market is a market where meets professionals who sell and buy titles or transferable security at a negotiated price called course.
2/Historic: Since its creation at the 1929, Casablanca Stock Exchange knew three reforms: 1st in 1988 to the Stock Market the legal entity allotted, the second in 1967 A made it possible to reorganize it juridically and technically and to define it as publicly-owned establishment, the third in 1993 amended and supplemented in 1996, instituted a whole of speakers and founded technical rules and procedures necessary to the development of the Moroccan money market. Currently Casablanca Stock Exchange is a private establishment.
3 principal speakers: The reform of 1993 amended and supplemented in 1996, instituted four speakers: The company manager of the purse: it is a company private whose capital is held by means of purse called company of purse. It has the role of ensuring the management and the development of the purse. Companies of purse: today 13, the companies of purse have as an aim, in addition to the negotiation out of purse, the guard of the titles, the placement of the titles emitted by people morals, the management of the wallets and the council of the customers. These companies are the vector of professionalisms and the dynamism of the stock exchange market. The council deontologic of the transferable securities (CDVM): created in July 1994, the CDVM is a publicly-owned establishment equipped with the legal entity and financial autonomy. It has the role of taking care: • With the protection of the saver. • A the information of the investors. • With the correct operation of the markets of the transferable securities. The CDVM is managed by a board of directors, is chaired by the Minister of Finance, and is composed of the Minister for justice, the government of bank Al the Maghreb or their representatives. It also includes/understands three personalities indicated by the Minister for Finance for their competence in the field economic and financial. The trade association of the companies of purse (APSB): The APSB is an organization gathering all the intermediaries operating with the purse founded in 1995, it defends the interests collective and individual of its members, it offers services to them of representation, information and of formation, it is the spokesman of the economic and social partner and operators Casablanca Stock Exchange with respect to the Official Authorities. It has an advisory statute privileged near the authorities of the market, in particular the Minister for Finance and CDVM, for all that relates to the respect of the deontology and the harmonization of the stock exchange procedures, the introduction of trade and techniques and the improvement of the operation of the marché.
4/undertakings for collective investment of the transferable securities (OPCVM): The OPCVM are organizations which manage wallets of transferable securities on behalf of the savers. They have create to help the people who do not have competence, experience or time to make bear fruit their saving rationally. Designation OPCVM gathers the investment companies with variable capital (SICAV), and the investment funds (CPF). • SICAV: in fact limited companies enjoying the legal entity have the role of investing in transferable securities. • CPF: it is not a company is a joint ownership of transferable securities whose savers acquire a share by investing in the FCP.
5/the companies whose actions are with dimensions: In fact in general important companies fill a certain number of conditions: • to be a person moral. • to have a capital of at least 15 million dirham. • to have established or makes certify by an auditor the annual statements of the last three exercises. • diffused in the public at least 20% of the actions representatives their authorized capital. • The introduction out of purse is pronounced by the company manager.
6 transferable securities, negotiated with Casablanca Stock Exchange: Two values remain during the money market, they are titles representative of right of associated or long-term praetors. They offer the advantage of being easily negotiable out of purse. These values are the actions and the obligations: - the action receives dividends which can drop, stagnate, increase or disappear, all depends on the result of the company. - obligations: are emitted by private companies, public companies and the State. The obligations are values called to fixed income i.e. that it give to their holders the right to a regular income without taking account of the result of the company.