In this Connamara Technologies Spotlight, we highlight how EP3 technology powered BEE4, Brazil’s first regulated tokenized stock market. Patricia Stille, CEO and Co-Founder, Rodrigo Fiszman, Co-Founder and Chairman, and Paloma Sevilha, Head of Products, speak on BEE4’s innovative trading platform and how our matching engine, our customized approach, and our support services allowed their technology to thrive. The full Case Study on our work with the Sao Paolo company illuminates how BEE4 leveraged Connamara Tech’s APIs to customize their exchange precisely to their specifications, adapting certain rules to align with the Brazilian market.
– Patricia Stille, CEO and Co-Founder of BEE4
We chose Connamara’s solution after evaluating other providers across the globe. This is the kind of partnership that is key: not only to develop the SME segment but also to expand to other niches and scale up.
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Patricia Stille, CEO and Co-Founder of BEE4: BEE4 is a pioneering OTC market in Brazil focused on SMEs and one of the first initiatives globally using blockchain and regulated market infrastructure. With the creation of this new market, SMEs can gain access to capital markets, fund their expansion strategies, and improve their visibility. At the same time, clients can benefit from IPOs and trade shares of high-potential firms typically unavailable in traditional exchanges.
Rodrigo Fiszman, Co-Founder and Chairman: BEE4’s trading model has a weekly auction with tunnel prices, so, at the end of the day, you can only put orders and input a trade between the tunnels in the auction. Since we’re talking about small and medium companies with less liquidity, we were focused on reducing the volatility for the owners, entrepreneurs, of those companies. BEE4 received its license in September 2021. From that day ’till one year after we launched, we were able to have more than 6,000 investors in our trading venues. We had four IPOs in a period when you didn’t have any IPOs in Brazil.
Paloma Sevilha, Head of Products: Connamara Technologies is the company behind EP3. EP3 is the order-matching engine and the exchange trading platform behind BEE4 operations and other exchanges worldwide. We chose EP3 for a few reasons. First of them, they are a well-established exchange platform. Second reason, they were very open to building these new features with BEE4. And third, they were part of the project regarding the FIX protocol which is something that is crucial for business. EP3 is very asset-neutral. And in BEE4 we work with tokenized stocks. And, we’re planning to work with different assets. We can have all these assets in EP3. We can just create a product and we can build that in a few minutes just with a few clicks. Besides that, we have the Connamara support team that is available 24/7. We work from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., so we do need a team that is available for longer hours in case there are any bugs or any questions or any maintenance needed. They’re there and they answer really quick.
Rodrigo Fiszman, Co-Founder and Chairman: So, in the end of the day, having Connamara as a partner and using EP3, it was all about scalability and also leveraging ready-made solutions that allow us to gain a head start.
Patricia Stille, CEO and Co-Founder of BEE4: We chose Connamara’s solution after evaluating other providers across the globe. This is the kind of partnership that is key: not only to develop the SME segment but also to expand to other niches and scale up.