Financial Regulation - Authority By Country

Authority By Country

See main article List of financial regulatory authorities by country

The following is a short listing of regulatory authorities in various jurisdictions, for a more complete listing, please see list of financial regulatory authorities by country.

  • United States
    • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
    • Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
    • Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
    • Federal Reserve System ("Fed")
    • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
    • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
    • National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
    • Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)
  • Financial Services Authority (FSA), United Kingdom
  • Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan
  • Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Germany
  • Autorité des marchés financiers (France) (AMF), France
  • Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Singapore
  • Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), Switzerland
  • Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB), Italy
  • Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, AFM), Netherlands
  • People's Republic of China
    • China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)
    • China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC)
    • China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC)
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários, CVM), Brazil
  • Canada
    • Canada is one of the few countries that does not have a country wide securities regulator. Canadian securities regulation is instead done at province level by separate agencies coordinated through the Canadian Securities Administrators.
    • Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) (French: Organisme canadien de réglementation du commerce des valeurs mobilières, OCRCVM)
    • Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI)

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