Consejo Federal del Notariado Argentino

What Consejo Federal del Notariado Argentino does

Consejo Federal del Notariado Argentino (CFNA) is the federal council that coordinates and represents the 24 colegios de escribanos (notary colleges) across Argentina's jurisdictions. Functionally, it serves as the unified institutional voice of the Argentine notarial profession, providing doctrinal coordination, convening authority, and cross-jurisdictional alignment among the provincial collegiate bodies that govern public notaries.

Its core "products" are institutional rather than commercial: the recurring Jornadas Notariales (national professional congresses), doctrinal publications and guidance, and representation in international notarial bodies including the Unión Internacional del Notariado (UINL), the Conferencia Americana de Abogados y Notarios (CAAM), and the Organización del Notariado de Países Iberoamericanos (ONPI). There is no proprietary technology platform; CFNA's infrastructure consists of administrative staff (approximately 17 employees) supporting federation governance, member communications, and event logistics.

The business model is a classic non-profit federation model: revenue derives from member-college dues paid by the 24 colegios, supplemented by registration and sponsorship fees associated with periodic events such as the Jornadas Notariales. Leadership rotates on multi-year cycles; Diego Leandro Molina was installed as president for the 2025-2027 term. There is no commercial pricing, no external customers, and no technology monetization — CFNA is a coordination and representative body, not a market-participating enterprise.

Name

Consejo Federal del Notariado Argentino

Legal name

Consejo Federal del Notariado Argentino

Website

https://cfna.org.ar

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Consejo Federal del Notariado Argentino is the federal council coordinating the 24 notary colleges across Argentina, providing institutional representation, doctrinal coordination, and convening services for the Argentine notarial profession.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Notarial Services

NAICS

Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPADANAB

Technical Committees, Working Groups & Expert Panels

Business & Public Services/International Organizations & Development/International Standards, Policy & Regulatory Cooperation

Keywords

• Notarial professional services
• Notary public coordination
• Anti-money laundering compliance
• Notary professional training
• Notarial federation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

HQ country

Argentina

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Member dues / institutional fees: CFNA is funded through contributions from its 24 member escribano colleges across Argentina. Each college pays dues to the federal body, which funds institutional operations, training programs, publications, and event organization.
2. Event participation fees: The organization collects registration fees for major events such as the National Novel Notary Encounters and the International Encounter of Women Notaries and Leaders of America. For example, the XXXVI Encounter charged ARS $650,000–$750,000 depending on payment plan, with international participants charged USD 150.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Consejo Federal del Notariado Argentino (CFNA) is a professional federation that coordinates Argentina's 24 provincial escribano (notary public) colleges. Its core offerings include institutional publications (a bimonthly magazine and monthly federal bulletin), continuing legal education and leadership training programs, organization of national and international notarial events, regulatory compliance support on anti-money laundering (UIF thresholds and FATF evaluations), and international representation through the Unión Internacional del Notariado Latino (UINL). These services are directed at licensed escribanos and the institutional colleges that govern them.

Product overview

The Consejo Federal del Notariado Argentino (CFNA) is a professional federation representing Argentine notary colleges, not a commercial technology company. Its offerings consist of institutional publications (Revista de Noticias, Boletin Federal Mensual, Foros), training programs through the Escuela de Dirigentes and partnership with Universidad Notarial Argentina, and the organization of national events including the Jornada Notarial Argentina and national encounters for new notaries. The federation does not offer commercial software products but coordinates professional development and regulatory compliance for its member notaries.

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Revista de Noticias del CFNA Bimonthly institutional magazine published by CFNA covering notarial news, academic articles, international notarial developments, and provincial college activities. Editions are numbered sequentially, with edition No. 87 published in May 2026.
• Boletín Federal Mensual Monthly federal bulletin distributed to all member escribano colleges, covering institutional activities, federal assemblies, celebrations, virtual visits, seminars, commission activities, and college anniversaries. Published continuously since 2007.
• Programa de Capacitación (National Training Program) Continuing legal education program executed in partnership with Universidad Notarial Argentina, delivering monthly courses across 21 escribano colleges covering topics aligned with the Civil and Commercial Code. Sessions are organized across two four-month semesters.
• Escuela de Dirigentes (Leadership School) Leadership school for notary professionals delivering management training and institutional content in mixed in-person and virtual format, designed to develop governance and leadership capacity within the notarial profession.

Quantifiable outcome

• 300+ escribanos gathered at the 35th Argentine National Notarial Conference, representing all provinces
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered secondary and core.

• Dirección Nacional de Migraciones (National Directorate of Migration)secondaryStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2025CFNA collaborates with the Dirección Nacional de Migraciones on matters related to travel authorizations for minors and revocation procedures, providing notarial guidance on these matters. Representatives Juan José Capella, María Bruna Marino, and Mariano Berenyi participated in CFNA's 35th National Notarial Conference to present these topics to escribanos.
• UNICEF ArgentinacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 June 2025CFNA participated in the 40th anniversary celebration of UNICEF in Argentina, representing the notarial profession's commitment to children's rights. The collaboration focuses on promoting solidarity wills (testamento solidário) and social initiatives benefiting children and adolescents. CFNA works with UNICEF's Testamentary Solidarity program and recognizes representatives Rafael Ramírez Mesec, María Elena Ubeda Castillo, and Victoria Bayó.
• Unión Internacional del Notariado Latino (UINL)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 May 2025CFNA is an active member of UINL and participates in its governing bodies, commissions, and working groups. CFNA delegates serve as UINL General Councilors (Consejeros Generales). Argentina hosted the presentation of UINL's International Notarial Code in Dakar (May 2025). CFNA also participates in UINL's CAAM (Commission of American Affairs), ONPI (Permanent International Notarial Exchange Office), and various technical commissions covering digital authentication, anti-money laundering, human rights, social security, and congress topics.
• Centro Tecnológico del Notariado (Madrid, Spain)secondaryTechnology or Integration · 24 September 2024CFNA's president visited the Spanish Notarial Technological Center in Madrid (September 2024) to learn about systems including notarial management modules (SIGNOS), anti-money laundering intelligence analysis (OCP), the Citizen Notarial Portal, banking portal, and international systems IBERFIDES (Ibero-American safe document circulation), EUDOC (European), and IBER@ (civil and criminal cooperation between notaries and justice). This was a knowledge-sharing visit rather than a formal partnership agreement.
• Academia Nacional del NotariadocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 March 2024CFNA's Executive Board met with the Academia Nacional del Notariado (March 2024) to strengthen ties between the two institutions. The meeting, led by CFNA president Diego Leandro Molina and Academia president Eleonora Casabe, addressed shared interests and collaboration for the advancement of the notarial profession. Academia contributes academic expertise and scholarly research to support CFNA's institutional work.
• Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 March 2024CFNA's president met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (March 2024) to present CFNA officially and discuss mutual interests. Under their existing cooperation agreement, both parties collaborate on consular training for consuls and on consular and notarial matters. The ministry was invited to visit CFNA's headquarters for a joint meeting with all provincial escribano college presidents.
• Unidad de Información Financiera (UIF) - Argentina's Financial Intelligence UnitcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 March 2024CFNA represents the notarial sector in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing compliance under UIF regulations. CFNA was called to participate in the 4th FATF/GAFI evaluation round of Argentina (March 2024) and collaborates on UIF threshold updates, self-evaluation risk frameworks, and training for escribanos on suspicious transaction reporting. CFNA's delegation included secretaries Laura Camejo and Guillermo Longhi.
• Universidad Notarial Argentina (UNA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 February 2024CFNA and Universidad Notarial Argentina maintain an ongoing training partnership first formalized in 2013 and updated in February 2024. The agreement enables UNA's training programs to reach escribanos across all of Argentina's provinces through CFNA's federal network. A National Training Plan is executed monthly, covering topics aligned with the Civil and Commercial Code, with sessions held in 21 escribano colleges organized across two four-month semesters.
• Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos de la NacióncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 August 2013CFNA signed a cooperation agreement with Argentina's Ministry of Justice (August 2013) to support the launch, operation, and modernization of the Registro Nacional de Tierras Rurales (National Rural Land Registry). The registry covers all rural properties in the country and monitors maximum foreign ownership thresholds. CFNA also collaborates with the Ministry on topics related to notarial jurisdiction and automotive registration matters.
• Oficina Notarial Permanente de Intercambio Internacional (ONPI)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerONPI is CFNA's international notarial exchange office that operates within UINL's CAAM framework. ONPI presented its report at the 111th CAAM Plenary Session in Punta Cana (April 2024), where Argentina's contribution was recognized. ONPI facilitates international notarial cooperation and document circulation.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• National Notary Association (USA): Largest US notary membership organization. Operates under a common-law notarial model (functionally different from Latin notaries), but is comparable as a large-scale membership body delivering training, publications, and advocacy to US notaries.
• Consejo General del Notariado de España: National coordinating body for Spanish notaries, structurally analogous to CFNA under the same Latin notarial tradition. CFNA has actively engaged Consejo General for knowledge transfer (Centro Tecnológico del Notariado visit, 2024), making it a benchmark peer for organizational model and technology adoption.

Others

• Unión Internacional del Notariado (UINL): International umbrella body for Latin notariats in which CFNA holds observer/General Councilor status. UINL is a strategic partner and standards-setting counterpart rather than a direct competitor, but is materially comparable as a coordinating federation of national notary systems.
• Academia Nacional del Notariado (Argentina): Argentine academic body that contributes scholarly expertise to CFNA's institutional work. A strategic partner rather than competitor, but organizationally comparable as a national-level institution serving the same escribano constituency with complementary functions.

Direct peers

• Colegio Nacional del Notariado Mexicano: National federation of Mexican notaries operating under a Latin notarial system similar to Argentina's. Directly comparable in coordinating role, continuing-education mandate, and engagement with UINL and government regulators.
• Asociación de Notarios, Conservadores y Archiveros de Chile: Chilean national notary association — another Latin-notariat jurisdiction in the Southern Cone. Comparable in coordinating Latin notaries across multiple jurisdictions and serving as the channel for UINL programs and FATF compliance training.

Regional players

• Colegio de Abogados de Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires Bar Association — a comparable Argentine professional federation, though for lawyers rather than notaries. Useful peer benchmark for governance model, member-funded operations, and continuing-education programming in the Argentine legal-professional ecosystem.
• Caja Notarial (Uruguay): Uruguayan notary institution performing social-security and coordinating functions for notaries in a neighboring jurisdiction. Comparable as a regional peer under the same notarial tradition, though structurally more focused on welfare than pure professional coordination.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

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