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Iosco: The World Standard Setter For Globalized Financial Markets, Antonio Marcacci
Iosco: The World Standard Setter For Globalized Financial Markets, Antonio Marcacci
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
As the current endless crisis clearly proves, world financial markets are closely interconnected. In order to provide a legal backdrop, a soft-law body, named the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), was established and tasked with encouraging an efficient flow of capital. Funded as a Pan-American, and subsequently worldwide, forum more than thirty years ago, IOSCO is a multilateral regulatory network whose members are the public regulators of more than ninety percent of the world’s securities and futures markets. It is devoted to promoting common and efficient regulations, setting the floor for the exchange of information between its members, improving …