Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.'s specialized banking unit for high-growth innovative companies and Nasdaq Private Market, LLC announced a strategic collaboration to facilitate streamlined introductions for BBVA?s portfolio upon their express request for secondary market liquidity. Through a referral agreement, BBVA´s clients, subject to their own request, will be able to access Nasdaq Private Market, an independent U.S.-regulated entity, and explore liquidity solutions ? including tender offers and private secondaries ?
directly through its institutional-grade platform. This initiative aims to address the growing demand for liquidity among founders, employees, and early investors in the Latin American tech ecosystem. The collaboration extends Nasdaq Private Market?s proven platform to private companies in a growing market and gives BBVA´s business unit for high-growth companies an additional benefit for their clients.
Together, BBVA and Nasdaq Private Market aim to contribute to a more mature and accessible private market ecosystem across LatAm - one where structured liquidity is an expected part of how companies manage talent and equity at scale. By combining Nasdaq Private Market's decade of experience supporting private companies with liquidity solutions with BBVA's deep relationships with the region's most successful founders, the collaboration establishes a framework for cross-border client introductions and strengthens the private market ecosystem in LatAm for companies, employees, and investors alike. This collaboration will initially focus on later stage companies across BBVA´s LatAm markets: Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.
The partnership offers a way to unlock liquidity without raising new capital or diluting existing shareholders, allowing founders and early investors to realize partial exits, supporting employee retention through equity monetization, and enabling the entry of new institutional investors ahead of future rounds or exits.
