FCA regulates the financial services industry in the UK.

FCA aims to make sure that financial markets work well so that consumers get a fair deal. This means ensuring that, the financial industry is run with integrity, firms provide consumers with appropriate products and services, and consumers can trust that firms have their best interests at heart.

ASIC is Australia’s corporate, markets and financial services regulator.

ASIC contribute to Australia’s economic reputation and wellbeing by ensuring that Australia’s financial markets are fair and transparent, supported by confident and informed investors and consumers.

FSC is the integrated regulator for the financial services sector (other than banking) and global business. The FSC licences ‘Investment Dealers’, not forex brokers.

Strong regulation and supervision are essential to ensure stability in the financial system. FSC's objective is to position Mauritius as a jurisdiction of substance with the right balance between regulation and business development.

Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) is the national self-regulatory organization that oversees all investment dealers, mutual fund dealers and trading activity on Canada’s debt and equity marketplaces.

CIRO is carrying on the regulatory functions of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada and the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada, and is committed to the protection of investors, providing efficient and consistent regulation, and building Canadians’ trust in financial regulation and the people managing their investments.

Protecting Investors

CIRO sets and enforces rules for the business and financial conduct of Canadian investment and mutual fund firms and their representatives across Canada. All registered representatives are subject to high proficiency standards, training, and supervision by member firms.

The compliance teams examine firms for compliance with conduct, trading, prudential and operating rules, and work with firms to ensure they continually meet high standards while providing financial services to their clients.

Enforcement investigates possible breaches of CIRO rules and disciplines firms and individuals when regulatory misconduct is identified. Discipline can include fines, suspensions, and permanent bans or termination for both individuals and firms.

Surveillance teams based in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver operate state-of-the-art technology to monitor equity markets in real time. If needed, the CIRO can halt trading in a stock and even cancel or adjust trades where market integrity is concerned. The surveillance teams also perform a review of cross asset trading between MX listed derivatives and the underlying securities on a next day basis. Surveillance also covers both CIRO dealer debt trading on a next day basis and newly added Canadian crypto asset trading platform activity.

Economic activity of a free target-oriented zone in Dubai is regulated by the DFSA.

Management of resources and securities, execution of banking and trust services, Islamic finance, exchange of international equities and derivatives, as well as insurance matters fall within the competence of the DFSA.

Activity of DFSA is based on a principle of risk-related regulation and avoidance of unnecessary regulatory implications. Besides, the agency made it clear that the obligations liable to fulfillment should comply with optimization of risks in order for such obligations to be successfully met.

Under the circumstances, the priorities include generation of a cycle of risk optimization that aims at identification, evaluation and assessment of risks in order to enhance local and international markets and their patterns.

According to DFSA, the reality of efficient risk-based regulation is more important than the way of its achievement.