IOSCO
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| Abbreviation | IOSCO |
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| Formation | 1983 |
| Type | International organization |
| Purpose | Global forum for national Securities Commissions |
| Headquarters | Madrid, Spain |
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Region served
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Worldwide |
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Membership
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207 (125 ordinary, 18 associate, and 64 affiliate) |
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Official language
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English, French, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Mr. Paul P. Andrews | |
| Website | http://www.iosco.org/ |
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is an association of organisations that regulate the world’s securities and futures markets.
Members are typically the Securities Commission or the main financial regulator from each country. IOSCO has members from over 100 different countries, who regulate more than 95 percent of the world's securities markets. The organisation's role is to assist its members to promote high standards of regulation and act as a forum for national regulators to cooperate with each other and other international organisations.
IOSCO is structured into a number of committees that meet several times per year at different locations around the world and it has a permanent secretariat based in Madrid.
IOSCO was born in 1983 from the transformation of its ancestor the ‘inter-American regional association’ (created in 1974) into a truly global cooperative body. This decision to expand the organisation beyond the Americas was made at the annual gathered in Quito, Ecuador in April 1983. At the same time the organisation was renamed to IOSCO to reflect the expanded membership beyond North and South America.
The securities regulators from France, Indonesia, Korea and the United Kingdom were the first agencies to join the organisation from outside the Americas. The IOSCO July 1986 Paris Annual Conference was the first to take place outside of the American continents and on that occasion a decision was made to create a permanent General Secretariat for the Organization.
One remnant of its early inter-American roots is that IOSCO's "official" languages are English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
In 1998 IOSCO started work on a number of important policies that led to broader set of guidelines. However it was the September 11, 2001 attacks as well as a series of large global financial scandals that started with Enron and including Worldcom, Parmalat and Vivendi that brought urgency to this work and heralded IOSCOs evolution from an international “talk shop”, where little of substance was accomplished, to a serious international organization with a real impact on the securities regulation.
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