2021-10-08
The Board of Directors of Panama's Securities Market Superintendence (SMV) issued Agreement 7-2021 to formally adopt email and qualified electronic signatures as standard alternative channels for receiving, tracking, and responding to administrative procedures. This regulation establishes specific operational conditions, including official email addresses, document formatting requirements, and response timelines, to ensure legal validity and functional equivalence with traditional physical methods. Additionally, the agreement designates the Virtual Securities Registration Window as the official electronic mechanism for submitting and managing securities registration applications.