List of financial regulatory authorities by country
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The following is an incomplete list of financial (securities markets) regulatory authorities by country.

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  • Afghanistan
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

     - Da Afghanistan Bank
    Da Afghanistan Bank
    The Afghanistan Bank is the central bank of Afghanistan. It regulates all the banking and money handling operations in Afghanistan.Da Afghanistan Bank is one of the leading & government recognized bank of Afghanistan which was established on 1939....

     (DAB) http://www.centralbank.gov.af
  • Albania
    Albania
    Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

     - Albanian Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) http://www.amf.gov.al
  • Algeria
    Algeria
    Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

     - Commission d'Organisation et de Surveillance des Opérations de Bourse (COSOB) http://www.cosob.org
  • Andorra
    Andorra
    Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, , is a small landlocked country in southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. It is the sixth smallest nation in Europe having an area of...

     - Institut Nacional Andorrà de Finances (INAF) http://www.inaf.ad
  • Anguilla
    Anguilla
    Anguilla is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin...

     - Anguilla Financial Services Commission http://www.fsc.org.ai
  • Antigua & Barbuda - Financial Services Regulatory Commission http://www.fsrc.gov.ag
  • Argentina
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

     - Comisión Nacional de Valores (CNV) http://www.cnv.gov.ar
  • Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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  • Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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    • Financial Market Authority (FMA, Finanzmarktaufsichtsbehörde in German
      German language
      German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

      ) http://www.fma.gv.at
    • Austrian National Bank  (Nationalbank in German
      German language
      German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

      ) http://www.oenb.at
    • Austrian Takeover Commission  (Übernahmekommission in German
      German language
      German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

      ) http://www.takeover.at
  • Bahamas - Securities Commission of the Bahamas http://www.scb.gov.bs
  • Bahrain
    Bahrain
    ' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...

     - Central Bank of Bahrain http://www.bma.gov.bh
  • Bangladesh
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

     - Securities and Exchange Commission (Bangladesh) http://www.secbd.org
  • Barbados
    Barbados
    Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

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  • Belgium
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

     - Financial Services and Markets Authority (Belgium) (FSMA) http://www.fsma.be/
  • Bermuda
    Bermuda
    Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...

     - Bermuda Monetary Authority
    Bermuda Monetary Authority
    The Bermuda Monetary Authority is the financial regulatory agency for Bermuda.It is responsible for the licensing of companies proposing to carry on the business of deposit taking , insurance, trusts, investment funds, money service, and investment business in Bermuda; the issue and redemption of...

     http://www.bma.bm
  • Bolivia
    Bolivia
    Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

     - Autoridad de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero (ASFI) http://www.asfi.gov.bo
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

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    • Republika Srpska Securities Commission for Republika Srpska
      Republika Srpska
      Republika Srpska is one of two main political entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

    • Securities Commission of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Komisiji za vrijednosne papire Federacije Bosne i Hercegovina in Bosnian
      Bosnian language
      Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina....

      )http://www.komvp.gov.ba
  • Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

  • British Virgin Islands
    British Virgin Islands
    The Virgin Islands, often called the British Virgin Islands , is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S...

     - British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission
    British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission
    The BVI Financial Services Commission is an autonomous regulatory authority responsible for the regulation, supervision and inspection of all financial services in and from within the British Virgin Islands, including insurance, banking, trustee business, company management, mutual funds business...

     http://www.bvifsc.vg
  • Brunei
    Brunei
    Brunei , officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia...

     - Brunei International Financial Center of the Ministry of Finance http://www.bifc.finance.gov.bn/
  • Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

     - Financial Supervision Commission (Bulgaria) (FSC) http://www.fsc.bg

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  • Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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    • Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions
      Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions
      The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions is an independent agency of the Government of Canada reporting to the Minister of Finance created "to contribute to public confidence in the Canadian financial system"...

       (OSFI) http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/
    • Canadian Securities Administrators
      Canadian Securities Administrators
      The Canadian Securities Administrators is an association of provincial and territorial securities regulators in Canada.-List of securities regulators:* BC: British Columbia Securities Commission*: jointly regulates the TSX Venture Exchange...

       (CSA) http://www.securities-administrators.ca
    • Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada
      Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada
      The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, abbreviated IIROC in English or Organisme canadien de réglementation du commerce des valeurs mobilières in French, is a non-profit, national self-regulatory organization...

       (IIROC) http://www.iiroc.ca/English/Pages/home.aspx
    • Mutual Fund Dealers Association
      Mutual Fund Dealers Association
      The Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada regulates securities dealers that are registered in Canadian provinces other than Quebec to sell mutual funds and similar products. It is recognized as a self-regulatory organization under the securities legislation of several Canadian provinces....

       (MFDA)
    • Ontario Securities Commission
      Ontario Securities Commission
      The Ontario Securities Commission is a regulatory agency which administers and enforces securities legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario...

       (OSC) http://www.osc.gov.on.ca/
    • Autorité des marchés financiers (Québec)
      Autorité des marchés financiers (Québec)
      The Autorité des marchés financiers is the body mandated by the government of Québec to regulate the province's financial markets and provide assistance to consumers of financial products and services....

       http://www.lautorite.qc.ca/
    • British Columbia Securities Commission
      British Columbia Securities Commission
      The British Columbia Securities Commission is a regulatory agency which administers and enforces securities legislation in the Canadian province of British Columbia.-See also:* Canadian securities regulation* Securities Commission...

       (BCSC) http://www.bcsc.bc.ca
  • Cayman Islands
    Cayman Islands
    The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union located in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica...

     - Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
    Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
    The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority is the primary financial services regulator of the Cayman Islands and supervises its currency board....

     http://www.cimoney.com.ky
  • Chile
    Chile
    Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

     - Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros http://www.svs.cl
  • China, People's Republic of
    People's Republic of China
    China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

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    • China Securities Regulatory Commission
      China Securities Regulatory Commission
      The China Securities Regulatory Commission is an institution of the State Council of the People's Republic of China , with ministry-level rank...

       (CSRC) http://www.csrc.gov.cn
    • China Banking Regulatory Commission
      China Banking Regulatory Commission
      The China Banking Regulatory Commission is an agency of the People's Republic of China authorised by the State Council to regulate the banking sector of the PRC except the territories of Hong Kong and Macau, both of which are special administrative regions...

       (CBRC) http://www.cbrc.gov.cn
    • China Insurance Regulatory Commission
      China Insurance Regulatory Commission
      The China Insurance Regulatory Commission is an agency of China authorized by the State Council to regulate the Chinese insurance products and services market and maintain legal and stable operations of insurance industry...

       (CIRC) http://www.circ.gov.cn
  • China, Republic of
    Republic of China
    The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

     (Taiwan
    Taiwan
    Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

    ) - Financial Supervisory Commission
    Financial Supervisory Commission
    The Financial Supervisory Commission is an independent government agency subordinate to the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China. It is responsible for regulating securities markets , banking, and the insurance sector...

     http://www.fscey.gov.tw
  • Colombia
    Colombia
    Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

     - Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia http://www.superfinanciera.gov.co
  • Costa Rica
    Costa Rica
    Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

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  • Croatia
    Croatia
    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

     - Croatian Agency for Supervision of Financial Services http://www.crosec.hr
  • Cyprus
    Cyprus
    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

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  • Czech Republic
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     - Czech National Bank
    Czech National Bank
    The Czech National Bank is the central bank and financial market supervisor in the Czech Republic with its headquarters in Prague. The Bank's governor is Miroslav Singer. In accordance with its primary objective, the ČNB sets monetary policy, issues banknotes and coins and manages the circulation...

     http://www.cnb.cz
  • Denmark
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

     - Financial Supervisory Authority (Denmark)
    Financial Supervisory Authority (Denmark)
    The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority is the financial regulatory authority of the Danish government responsible for the regulation of financial markets in Denmark....

    , (Finanstilsynet in Danish
    Danish language
    Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

    ) http://www.finanstilsynet.dk
  • Dominican Republic
    Dominican Republic
    The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

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  • Ecuador
    Ecuador
    Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

     - Superintendencia de Compañías http://www.supercias.gov.ec
  • Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

     - Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority
    Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority
    The Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority is the integrated government agency that regulates the financial service industry in Egypt...

     http://www.efsa.gov.eg
  • El Salvador
    El Salvador
    El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

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  • Estonia
    Estonia
    Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

     - Finantsinspektsioon http://www.fi.ee
  • Faroe Islands
    Faroe Islands
    The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...

     - Insurance Authority of the Faroe Islands (Tryggingareftirlitið in Faroese) http://www.tryggingareftirlit.gov.fo (For Insurance, Pension and mortgages all other finance is regulated by Financial Supervisory Authority (Denmark)
    Financial Supervisory Authority (Denmark)
    The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority is the financial regulatory authority of the Danish government responsible for the regulation of financial markets in Denmark....

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  • Finland
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

     - Financial Supervisory Authority, (FIN-FSA Finanssivalvonta in Finnish
    Finnish language
    Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...

    ) http://www.finanssivalvonta.fi/en/Pages/Default.aspx
  • France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     - Autorité des marchés financiers (France) (AMF) http://www.amf-france.org
  • Georgia
    Georgia (country)
    Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

     - National Bank of Georgia http://www.nbg.gov.ge
  • Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     - Federal Financial Supervisory Authority
    BaFin
    The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority better known by its abbreviation BaFin is the financial regulatory authority for Germany. It is an independent federal institution with headquarters in Bonn and Frankfurt and falls under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Finance...

     (BaFin - Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht) http://www.bafin.de
  • Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

     - Greek Capital Market Commission http://www.hcmc.gr
  • Grenada
    Grenada
    Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...

     - Grenada International Financial Services Authority (GIFSA)
  • Guatemala
    Guatemala
    Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

     - Superintendencia de Bancos (SB)
  • Guernsey
    Guernsey
    Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...

     - Guernsey Financial Services Commission
    Guernsey Financial Services Commission
    The Guernsey Financial Services Commission is the supervisory authority for financial services in the Bailiwick of Guernsey....

     http://www.gfsc.gg
  • Honduras
    Honduras
    Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

     - National Banks and Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional de Bancos y Seguros in Spanish
    Spanish language
    Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

    ) http://www.cnbs.gov.hn/
  • Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

     - Securities and Futures Commission (Hong Kong) (SFC) http://www.sfc.hk
  • Hungary
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

     - Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority http://www.pszaf.hu
  • Iceland
    Iceland
    Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

     - Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority http://www.fme.is
  • India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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    • Reserve Bank of India
      Reserve Bank of India
      The Reserve Bank of India is the central banking institution of India and controls the monetary policy of the rupee as well as US$300.21 billion of currency reserves. The institution was established on 1 April 1935 during the British Raj in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of...

       (RBI)
    • Securities and Exchange Board of India
      Securities and Exchange Board of India
      The Securities and Exchange Board of India is the regulator for the securities market in India.-History:It was formed officially by the Government of India in 1992 with SEBI Act 1992 being passed by the Indian Parliament...

       (SEBI)
    • Forward Markets Commission (India) (FMC)
    • Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
      Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
      The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority is a national agency of the Government of India, based in Hyderabad. It was formed by an act of Indian Parliament known as IRDA Act 1999, which was amended in 2002 to incorporate some emerging requirements...

       (IRDA) http://www.irda.gov.in
  • Indonesia
    Indonesia
    Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

     - Indonesian Capital Market and Financial Institutions Supervisory Agency (Bapepam) http://www.bapepam.go.id
  • Ireland
    Ireland
    Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

     - Central Bank of Ireland http://www.centralbank.ie
  • Iraq
    Iraq
    Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

     - Iraq Securities Commission
    Iraq Securities Commission
    Iraq Securities Commission, ' is an independent public commission that oversees the activities of licensed securities markets, one of which is the Iraq Stock Exchange.-External links:*...

     (ISC)
  • Isle of Man
    Isle of Man
    The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...

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    • Financial Supervision Commission (Isle of Man) (FSC, for banking, investment and fiduciary businesses)
    • Insurance and Pensions Authority (Isle of Man)
      Insurance and Pensions Authority (Isle of Man)
      The Insurance and Pensions Authority or IPA is the statutory body responsible for the regulation and supervision of pensions and insurance businesses operated in or from the Isle of Man.-History:...

       (IPA, for insurance and pensions businesses)
  • Israel
    Israel
    The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

     - Israel Securities Authority
    Israel Securities Authority
    The Israel Securities Authority is the national securities regulator of Israel.-Mandate:Its mandate is to protect the interests of the public investing in securities, as stipulated in the Law...

     (ISA) http://www.isa.gov.il
  • Italy
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

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  • Jamaica
    Jamaica
    Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

     - Financial Services Commission (Jamaica) http://www.fscjamaica.org
  • Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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    • Financial Services Agency
      Financial Services Agency
      The is a Japanese government organization responsible for overseeing banking, securities and exchange, and insurance in order to ensure the stability of the financial system of Japan. The agency operates with a commissioner and reports to the Minister of Finance. It oversees the Securities and...

    • Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission
      Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission
      The is a Japanese commission which comes under the authority of the Financial Services Agency. It is responsible for “ensuring fair transactions in both securities and financial futures markets.”...

       (SESC)
  • Jersey
    Jersey
    Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...

     - Jersey Financial Services Commission http://www.jerseyfsc.org
  • Jordan
    Jordan
    Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

     - Jordan Securities Commission http://www.jsc.gov.jo
  • Kazakhstan
    Kazakhstan
    Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

    :
    • Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Regulation and Supervision of Financial Market and Financial Organizations (Агентство Республики Казахстан по регулированию и надзору финансового рынка и финансовых организаций in Kazakh
      Kazakh language
      Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak....

       )
    • Committee for the Control and Supervision of the Financial Market and Financial Organizations of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan http://www.afn.kz/
  • Kenya
    Kenya
    Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

     - Capital Markets Authority (Kenya) http://www.cma.or.ke
  • Korea, South
    South Korea
    The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

    :
    • Financial Services Commission
      Financial Services Commission (South Korea)
      The Financial Services Commission , formerly Financial Supervisory Commission, is South Korean government's top financial regulator. It makes financial policies, and directs the Financial Supervisory Service....

       (FSC)
    • Financial Supervisory Service
      Financial Supervisory Service (South Korea)
      The Financial Supervisory Service is South Korea's integrated financial regulator that examines and supervises financial institutions under the broad oversight of the Financial Services Commission , the government regulatory authority staffed by civil servants.-Financial Supervisory system in S...

       (FSS)
  • Latvia
    Latvia
    Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

     - Financial and Capital Market Commission http://www.fktk.lv
  • Lebanon
    Lebanon
    Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

     - Banking Control Commission of Lebanon (BCCL) http://www.bccl.gov.lb
  • Liechtenstein
    Liechtenstein
    The Principality of Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine country in Central Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east. Its area is just over , and it has an estimated population of 35,000. Its capital is Vaduz. The biggest town is Schaan...

     - Financial Market Authority (Liechtenstein)
    Financial Market Authority (Liechtenstein)
    The Financial Market Authority is the primary financial regulatory agency of the Principality of Liechtenstein. It is an independent, integrated financial market supervisory authority operating under public law and covers all financial markets in Liechtenstein.-History:The FMA was launched on 1...

     (FMA) http://www.fma-li.li
  • Lithuania
    Lithuania
    Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

     - Securities Commission of the Republic of Lithuania http://www.vpk.lt
  • Luxembourg
    Luxembourg
    Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

    :

M-R

  • Malaysia - Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) http://www.sc.com.my/
  • Malta
    Malta
    Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

     - Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) http://www.mfsa.com.mt
  • Mauritius
    Mauritius
    Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

     - Bank of Mauritius
    Bank of Mauritius
    The Bank of Mauritius is the central bank of the Republic of Mauritius. It was established in September 1967 as the central bank of Mauritius. It was modelled on the Bank of England and was, in effect, set up with the assistance of senior officers of the Bank of England.Amongst its...

     http://bom.intnet.mu/
  • Mexico
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

     - Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores http://www.cnbv.gob.mx
  • Montenegro
    Montenegro
    Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

     - Insurance Supervision Agency http://www.ano.me
  • Montserrat
    Montserrat
    Montserrat is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. This island measures approximately long and wide, giving of coastline...

     - Montserrat Financial Services Commission http://www.fscmontserrat.org
  • Morocco
    Morocco
    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

     - Conseil déontologique des valeurs mobilières http://www.cdvm.gov.ma
  • Netherlands
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     - Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets
    Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets
    The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets is the financial services regulatory authority for the Netherlands. Its role is comparable to the role of the SEC in the United States.-History:...

     (AFM - Autoriteit Financiële Markten in Dutch
    Dutch language
    Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

    ) http://www.autoriteit-fm.nl
  • New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     - Financial Markets Authority (New Zealand)
    Financial Markets Authority (New Zealand)
    The Financial Markets Authority is the New Zealand government agency responsible for financial regulation. It is responsible for consumer protection, regulating all financial market participants, exchanges and the setting and enforcing of regulations....

     http://www.fma.govt.nz
  • Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

     - Securities and Exchange Commission (Nigeria)
    Securities and Exchange Commission (Nigeria)
    The Securities and Exchange Commission is the main regulatory institution of the Nigerian capital market.It is supervised by the Federal Ministry of Finance....

     http://www.sec.gov.ng
  • Norway
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

     - Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway
    Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway
    The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway is a Norwegian government agency responsible for supervision of financial companies within Norway based on law and regulations from Storting, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance and international accounting standards...

     http://www.finanstilsynet.no (Finanstilsynet in Norwegian
    Norwegian language
    Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

    )
  • Oman
    Oman
    Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the...

     - Capital Market Authority (Oman) http://www.cma.gov.om
  • Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

     - Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
    Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
    The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan is an autonomous body whose purpose is to develop a modern and efficient corporate sector and a capital market based on sound regulatory principles, in order to foster economic growth and prosperity in Pakistan.-History:The Securities and Exchange...

     http://www.secp.gov.pk
  • Panama
    Panama
    Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

     - Comisión Nacional de Valores (CNV) http://www.conaval.gob.pa
  • Peru
    Peru
    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

     - Comisión Nacional Supervisora de Empresas y Valores http://www.conasev.gob.pe
  • Philippines
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

     - Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) http://www.sec.gov.ph
  • Poland
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     - Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) http://www.knf.gov.pl
  • Portugal
    Portugal
    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

     - Portuguese Securities Market Commission
    Portuguese Securities Market Commission
    The Portuguese Securities Market Commission , also known by its initials CMVM, was established in April 1991 with the task of supervising and regulating securities and other financial instruments markets , as well as the activity of all those who operate within said markets...

     (CMVM) http://www.cmvm.pt/en
  • Qatar
    Qatar
    Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

     - Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA) http://www.qfma.org.qa
  • Republic of Macedonia
    Republic of Macedonia
    Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

    :
    • Securities and Exchange Commission of the Republic of Macedonia (MSEC)
    • National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia
      National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia
      The National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia is the central bank of the Republic of Macedonia, located in the capital city, Skopje.The current Governor of the NBRM is Dimitar Bogov, since May 21, 2011.-Functions:...

       http://www.nbrm.gov.mk
  • Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

     - Romanian National Securities Commission http://www.cnvmr.ro
  • Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

     - Federal Financial Markets Service (Russia) (FFMS) http://www.fcsm.ru

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  • Saint Lucia
    Saint Lucia
    Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...

     - Financial Sector Supervision Unit
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....

     - International Financial Services Authority http://www.stvincentoffshore.com
  • San Marino
    San Marino
    San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino , is a state situated on the Italian Peninsula on the eastern side of the Apennine Mountains. It is an enclave surrounded by Italy. Its size is just over with an estimated population of over 30,000. Its capital is the City of San Marino...

     - Central Bank of San Marino
    Central Bank of San Marino
    The Central Bank of San Marino, , is the central bank of San Marino.The bank was created in 2005 . It has been superseded de facto by the European Central Bank...

     (BCSM) http://www.bcsm.sm
  • Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia
    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

     - Capital Market Authority (Saudi Arabia) (CMA) (هيئة السوق المالية in Arabic
    Arabic language
    Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

    ‎‎)
  • Serbia
    Serbia
    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

     - Securities Commission (Serbia) http://www.sec.gov.rs/
  • Seychelles
    Seychelles
    Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....

    ;
    • Central Bank of Seychelles
      Central Bank of Seychelles
      The Central Bank of Seychelles is the central bank of the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles. The offices of the bank are located in Victoria, the nation's capital, with the Governor of the bank being Mr. Pierre Laporte and Ms...

       http://www.cbs.sc
  • Singapore
    Singapore
    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

     - Monetary Authority of Singapore
    Monetary Authority of Singapore
    The Monetary Authority of Singapore is Singapore's central bank and financial regulatory authority...

     (MAS)
  • Slovenia
    Slovenia
    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

     - Securities Market Agency (ATVP Agencija za Trg Vrednostnih Papirjev)
  • South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    ;
    • South African Reserve Bank
      South African Reserve Bank
      The South African Reserve Bank is the central bank of South Africa. It was established in 1921 after Parliament passed an act, the "Currency and Bank Act of 10 August 1920," as a direct result of the abnormal monetary and financial conditions which World War I had brought...

       http://www.reservebank.co.za
    • National Credit Regulator
      National Credit Regulator
      National Credit Regulator as the NCR and was established as the regulator under the National Credit Act 34 of 2005 . The NCR is responsible for the regulation of the South African credit industry...

       http://www.ncr.org.za
    • Financial Services Board (South Africa)
      Financial Services Board (South Africa)
      The Financial Services Board is the government of South Africa financial regulatory agency responsible for the non-banking financial services industry in South Africa. It is an independent body that supervises and regulates the financial services industry in the public interest...

       http://www.fsb.co.za
  • Spain
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

    :
    • Investment sector regulator - Spanish Securities Market Commission (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores
      Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores
      The Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores is the Spanish government agency responsible for regulating the financial securities markets in Spain...

      , CNMV) http://www.cnmv.es/
    • Insurance sector regulator (life and general) - Direccion General de Seguros
      Direccion General de Seguros
      The General Directorate of Insurance and Pensions is an administrative body that depends on the Spanish State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Spain, under Royal Decree 1127/2008 of 4th July, which develops the basic structure of the...

       (DGS) http://www.dgsfp.meh.es/index_in.asp
    • Banking sector regulator - Banco de España
      Banco de España
      The Bank of Spain , is the national central bank of Spain. Established in Madrid in 1782 by Charles III, today the bank is a member of the European System of Central Banks.-History:...

       (BdE) http://www.bde.es/homee.htm
  • Swaziland
    Swaziland
    Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Swaziland , and sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, bordered to the north, south and west by South Africa, and to the east by Mozambique...

     - Capital Markets Development Unit (Central Bank of Swaziland
    Central Bank of Swaziland
    The Central Bank of Swaziland, or Umntsholi Wemaswati, is the central bank of Swaziland. It was established in 1974 and is based in Mbabane...

    ) http://www.centralbank.org.sz
  • Sweden
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     - Financial Supervisory Authority (Sweden) (Finansinspektionen, FI) http://www.fi.se
  • Switzerland
    Switzerland
    Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

     - Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority
    Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority
    Swiss Financial Markets Authority is the Swiss government body responsible for financial regulation. This includes the supervision of banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges and securities dealers as well as other financial intermediaries in Switzerland.FINMA is an independent institution...

     http://www.finma.ch
  • Tanzania
    Tanzania
    The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

     - Capital Markets and Securities Authority http://www.cmsa-tz.org
  • Thailand
    Thailand
    Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

     - Bank of Thailand
    Bank of Thailand
    - History :The Bank of Thailand was first set up as the Thai National Banking Bureau. The Bank of Thailand Act was promulgated on 28 April 1942 vesting upon the Bank of Thailand the responsibility for all central banking functions...

     (BOT)
  • Tunisia
    Tunisia
    Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

     - Conseil du marché financier http://www.cmf.org.tn
  • Turkey
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

    :

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  • Uganda
    Uganda
    Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

     - Capital Markets Authority (Uganda) (CMA) http://www.cmauganda.co.ug
  • Ukraine
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

     - Securities and Stock Market State Commission (SSMSC) http://www.ssmsc.gov.ua
  • United Arab Emirates
    United Arab Emirates
    The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

      - Securities and Commodities Authority  - (SCA) http://www.sca.gov.ae
    • United Arab Emirates
      United Arab Emirates
      The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

       (Dubai
      Dubai
      Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

      ) - Dubai Financial Services Authority  - (DFSA) http://www.dfsa.ae
  • United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     - Financial Services Authority
    Financial Services Authority
    The Financial Services Authority is a quasi-judicial body responsible for the regulation of the financial services industry in the United Kingdom. Its board is appointed by the Treasury and the organisation is structured as a company limited by guarantee and owned by the UK government. Its main...

     (FSA) - http://www.fsa.gov.uk)
  • United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    :
    • Securities & Exchange Commission
      United States Securities and Exchange Commission
      The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is a federal agency which holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other electronic securities markets in the United States...

       (SEC)
    • Commodity Futures Trading Commission
      Commodity Futures Trading Commission
      The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates futures and option markets....

       (CFTC) http://www.cftc.gov/
    • Federal Reserve System
      Federal Reserve System
      The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907...

       ("Fed")
    • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
      Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
      The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a United States government corporation created by the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933. It provides deposit insurance, which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks, currently up to $250,000 per depositor per bank. , the FDIC insures deposits at...

       (FDIC)
    • Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
      Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
      In the United States, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., or FINRA, is a private corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization . FINRA is the successor to the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ...

       (FINRA) http://www.finra.org
    • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
      Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
      The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a US federal agency established by the National Currency Act of 1863 and serves to charter, regulate, and supervise all national banks and the federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States...

       (OCC)
    • National Credit Union Administration
      National Credit Union Administration
      The National Credit Union Administration is the United States independent federal agency that supervises and charters federal credit unions...

       (NCUA)
    • Office of Thrift Supervision
      Office of Thrift Supervision
      The Office of Thrift Supervision was a United States federal agency under the Department of the Treasury that charters, supervises, and regulates all federally- and state-chartered savings banks and savings and loans associations. It was created in 1989 as a renamed version of another federal agency...

       (OTS)
    • In addition, each state has its own banking authority
  • Uruguay
    Uruguay
    Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

     - Banco Central del Uruguay http://www.bcu.gub.uy
  • Uzbekistan
    Uzbekistan
    Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

     - Center for Coordination and Control over Functioning of Securities Market http://www.csm.gov.uz
  • Venezuela
    Venezuela
    Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

     - Comisión Nacional de Valores http://www.cnv.gov.ve
  • Vietnam
    Vietnam
    Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

     - State Securities Commission (SSC) http://www.ssc.gov.vn
  • Zambia
    Zambia
    Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

     - Securities and Exchange Commission (Zambia) http://www.sec.gov.zm

See also

  • Financial regulation
    Financial regulation
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