Transparency and Disclosure

Principles for Financial Benchmarks

An overarching framework containing guidance and principles for Benchmark-related activities that will address conflicts of interest in the Benchmark-setting process, as well as transparency and openness when considering issues related to transition.

Principles for the Regulation of Exchange Traded Funds

This report outlines a list of 9 principles against which both the industry and regulators can assess the quality of regulation and industry practices concerning Exchange Traded Funds (ETF). Generally, these principles reflect a common approach and are a practical guide for regulators and industry practitioners.

Suitability Requirements With Respect To the Distribution of Complex Financial Products

IOSCO issued nine principles to promote robust customer protection in connection with the distribution of complex financial products by intermediaries, including guidance on how the applicable suitability requirements should be implemented.

Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS)

The SDDS guides countries in providing economic and financial data to the public.

Principles for the Ongoing Disclosure of Asset-Backed Securities

The Principles for Ongoing Disclosure for Asset Backed Securities aim to enhance investor protection by providing guidance to regulators that are developing or reviewing their disclosure regimes for offerings and listings of asset backed securities.

Suspension of Redemptions in Collective Investment Schemes

Principles against which both the industry and regulators can assess the quality of regulation and industry practices concerning suspensions of redemptions.

Report on OTC Derivatives Data Reporting and Aggregation Requirements

Obligation of OTC derivatives contracts to be reported to trade repositories (TRs) in order to improve transparency, mitigate systemic risk and protect against market abuse in the OTC derivatives markets.

Principles to Address Dark Liquidity

These principles focus on a number of areas of regulatory concern which may adversely impact the market including transparency and price discovery, market fragmentation, knowledge of trading intentions, fair access; and the ability to assess actual trading volume in dark pools.

Principles on Point of Sale Disclosure

Principles that are designed to assist markets and market authorities when considering point of sale disclosure requirements for collective investment schemes (CIS).

Transparency of Structured Finance Products

IOSCO sets out a number of factors that are designed to assist market authorities when considering how to enhance post-trade transparency of SFPs in their respective jurisdictions.

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