Regulatory Services

Benefits of International Services

FINRA provides advisory services in regulatory policy, processes, and technology, as well as education and training and dispute resolution.  FINRA's unique competency in these areas, built on decades of experience, offers substantial benefits to international market participants, securities firms, and investors.

 

For international regulators and exchanges, FINRA

 

  • Enhances both domestic and international investor confidence by drawing on nearly 70 years of experience to promote effective and efficient regulation of markets and their participants;
  • Contributes to the greater harmonization of global capital market regulation by offering sophisticated technology and regulatory know-how that are state of the art. 

 

For international securities firms, FINRA

 

  • Improves efficiency of regulation in markets in which firms are active;
  • Promotes a level playing field for all market participants;
  • Increases firms’ confidence to trade safely in overseas markets.

 

For international investors, FINRA

 

  • Broadens cross-border investment opportunities by raising standards of regulation across the globe;
  • Better safeguards investments of local and international investors in client countries.