Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the audio conference call of B3 earnings results for the third quarter of 2020. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a Q&A session, and instructions to participate will be given at that time. If you should require assistance during this call, please press star key followed by zero. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded and broadcast live via webcast. The replay will be available after the event is concluded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Daniel Sonder, Chief Financial Officer of B3.
Hello. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our call. I'm here with the investor relations and the finance teams. I just want to take the opportunity to thank them for putting the materials together for the call and for the other media that we have used to share our results with you. We have had a very successful quarter with positive results in most of our businesses. We are seeing a very important development in the Brazilian capital markets, with more companies accessing the markets for both equities and debt transactions, and also more and more investors using the products and services of B3 to diversify their portfolios in an environment of low interest rates. That has brought additional volumes to our platforms. We think this is a structural change.
In addition to that, we've also seen quite a bit of volatility in our markets due to the economics and health news related to the pandemic, and also volatility in all types of asset prices, including FX, equities, and others. I'm going to turn over the call to Marcela. She's going to get into a little bit more detail about each one of the segments and some of our numbers. It's going to be a rather brief conversation, and then we'll open up for Q&A. Thank you.
Thank you, Daniel. Good morning, everyone. I'll just, as Sonder mentioned, go through the highlights of the quarter very briefly. I assume most of you have already read the earnings release, and maybe you had the opportunity also to listen to our podcast, which we make available every quarter. This quarter, as Daniel mentioned, was a solid quarter, especially when we take a look into our listed equities business. We had a very strong quarter in terms of volumes. ADTV reached almost 29 billion during this quarter. The influx of new investors was one of the key reasons that supported those higher volumes. At the end of the quarter, we had more than 3 million individual accounts in our depository, which was 120% higher than what we observed at the end of September last year.
Moving on to our derivatives business, volumes remained somewhat stable versus what we observed last year, but we had a positive impact in terms of revenues coming mostly from a higher share of assets contracts in our product mix, as well as higher RPCs, since some of our contracts are priced in USD. On our OTC business, we continue to see strong volumes in terms of banking funding instruments issuance and stock, which have been 40% up year-on-year. Also we continue to see stronger volumes in terms of local debt capital market transactions, with stocks up 9% year-on-year. Finally, moving on to our infrastructure for financing business. Revenues were still down this year, 19% this quarter compared to the third quarter of last year. However, we started to have some positive signs of potential recovery for this market.
Starting in August, we started to see recovery in terms of volumes of vehicles sold and financed. In September, we had a very strong month, the best month of the year to date, and also even a little bit better than what we observed in 2019. We have reason to believe that hopefully, the remainder of the year will have a more positive dynamics for this segment, which has been suffering a lot with the quarantine as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In terms of ex revenues, we reached a BRL 2.5 billion in gross revenues, which was roughly 47% higher than what we observed in 2019. Our EBITDA for the quarter reached BRL 1.7 billion, a 79% margin, driven by this growth in revenues mostly and disciplined expense control.
I just think it's worth mentioning as well that this quarter we had a non-recurring impact coming from the settlement of a legal dispute we had with Spread, A bankruptcy state, which impacted our revenues, expense, and tax line. It's worth mentioning that this somewhat affected our results for the quarter. Finally, I'd like to highlight our debt position at the end of the quarter, which was BRL 6.9 billion after the issuance of BRL 3.55 billion debenture in the local market that we issued in August. The pay down of our BRL 612 million global bond that was due in July. With that, we reached an indebtedness level of 1.2 times gross debt to the EBITDA at the end of the quarter. Having said that, I think we can open up for questions. Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen will would now begin the Q&A for investor and analyst, if you have a question please press star key followed by the one key on your touch tone phone now. If at anytime you would like to remove yourself from the question queue press star two.
Our first question comes from Thiago Pardo, BTG Pactual.
Hi, good morning, Sonder, Marcela, and team. My first question is regarding the Retail Liquidity Provider. Do you have an expectation of when will it be expanded to other products, for example, equities, as CVM already indicated that they would like this new service to be tested in more products than just the mini contracts. Also if you could share with us if you have any study or estimates of how much have the Retail Liquidity Provider contributed to the fast growth pace of mini contracts. By coincidence or not, we noticed that mini contracts volumes accelerated a lot since the Retail Liquidity Provider was implemented. A second question, if I may, is how you're looking at the EBITDA margins going forward, as with the new levels of volumes, you are more and more closer to 80% EBITDA margin level.
Can we expect more changes in pricing policies to share more gain in scale with market participants? The new equities pricing scheme that will be implemented during first half next year, do you have any estimates on the impact to trading margins and EBITDA margins of this new pricing policy, given that the volumes increased a lot since you announced it and gave kind of an estimate of the impact? Thank you.
Thiago, thank you. Thank you very much for the question. Let me try to address this. We are in ongoing conversations with market participants and with the regulator about the Retail Liquidity Provider, RLP. Let's say the progress and the next step that we're going to take on this product. This was a very important innovation that B3 brought to the Brazilian markets. It was a long road in terms of getting everybody to think together, both market participants and retail brokers and regulators, and obviously our teams in operations, technology, and rules so that we could create this new feature into our platform.
The regulator has been a great partner of B3 in the development of this and has obviously done a thoughtful job in terms of understanding the impacts and the consequences of this in the market, which seem to be pretty positive up to now. When they had a chance to look at the product and make a decision recently on whether to move forward with it, their decision was in the direction of maintaining this product which had been in a kind of a pilot phase for the first year. The next step would naturally be to expand it into other products, as you mentioned, but we are really taking this gradually and working together with the market and the regulator to make sure that everybody's comfortable whenever we take that next step. I don't have a particular date. It's an ongoing conversation.
It's high on our priority list in terms of things that we think could help the further development of the business of the brokers and ourselves. We're going to do this when the regulator feels it's the right time to do so. In terms of the impact, we are releasing numbers about RLP. It's public in our website, and I can direct you to some of the statistics. I'm not going to get into a lot of the statistics here. It's important to understand that. Let's say some of that activity that is now happening in the RLP was already part of our volumes that was directed to us through direct trades from the retail brokers over the time before the RLP was put in place.
It's also interesting to note that as we brought this onto the exchange, more people were able to access it, more brokers were able to offer it to their clients. It used to be restricted to a handful of brokers which were, let's say, executing these type of transactions. When we formalized the RLP with the blessing of the CVM, it became something that is more broadly used by market participants. There's certainly an impact on the volumes of mini contracts that you see. I think that it would have been very detrimental to the whole ecosystem, including ourselves, if B3 had not put together this innovation a little more than one year ago. I'll send you some of the statistics tables, and you can look a little bit more on what exactly is happening there.
With regards to your second point on EBITDA margins, we have been working on changes in our pricing. As you know, we did face some delay to put in place the desired changes, and this will come online during the first half of next year at some point. We will continue to study these things. We don't manage the company, not necessarily looking at our EBITDA margin. We try to look at how the perception of clients is regarding our services, our product set, our innovations, our pricing too. Pricing is definitely one of the components of the conversations that we have with clients. As stated before, our long-term objective is in fact to share with the market the benefits of the growth that we're having. We remain absolutely committed to it. We are not planning to change course.
It's just that the implementation that we expected to see this year was unfortunately delayed, and it so happened that it happened in the same time that we saw a very sharp increase in volumes. We gave an estimate, you asked for an estimate. We gave an estimate last year or very early this year. Looking back 12 months, we were talking about a reduction of BRL 250 million in our total revenues in this, let's say, back test. If we were to apply that rule again, and I don't have the number here at this point, but it would have been a much bigger number in the past 12 months just because the volumes went up significantly.
This is a volume-driven discount scheme, so that the more people trade, the less they would pay and the less they would have paid if that was already in place in 2020. I would look at our current margin as somewhat abnormal, and we expect that they will be somewhat different once we put in place the changes in pricing.
Perfect. Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen as a reminder if you would like to pose a question please press star key followed by the one key on your touch tone phone now. This concludes today's Q&A session. I would like to invite Mr. Daniel Sonder to proceed with his closing statements.
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