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Droit, a regulatory technology firm, has joined Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) as an Associate Member. The addition of Droit widens the pool of expertise available to develop FMSB’s work, via its Conduct & Ethics Committee in particular, … … read more.

We are looking for an individual to join the Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) Secretariat as a Technical Director. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping standards for fair and effective financial markets. As Technical Di … … read more.

We are pleased to announce that Gareth Murphy, Group Chief Risk Officer at abrdn and Alison Higgins, Markets Head for UK, Europe, and the Americas and Global Head of Control for Markets at Standard Chartered Bank, are taking on the role of joint Chairs … … read more.

Financial Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) has today published its Standard for Sharing of Standard Settlement Instructions (SSIs) as final.  The Standard aims to increase the adoption of electronic solutions that allow for standardisation and pre-auth … … read more.

Financial Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) is pleased to launch its Board mentoring programme for 2025. FMSB successfully piloted the programme over the past 18 months, with two candidates taking part.   The 2025 programme offers the opportunity for an … … read more.

Financial Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) has today set out its Workplan for 2025. The 2025 Workplan includes work that is currently in progress across FMSB’s five Committees, as well as topics that have been raised for consideration in 2025. In line … … read more.

Financial Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) has today published in final form its updated Statement of Good Practice (“SoGP”) Front Office Supervision of Wholesale Traded Markets. The SoGP sets out 15 good practice statements, grouped under five themes, … … read more.

Financial Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) has today published its Standard for Client Onboarding: Documentation and Processes and Annexes as final.  The Standard was developed by a Working Group made up of representatives from FMSB Member firms and pr … … read more.

Financial Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) has today published a Statement of Good Practice (“SoGP”) on the Governance of sustainability-linked products (“SLPs”) in Transparency Draft. The SoGP is intended to codify good practices for the governance of … … read more.

Encompass Corporation, a leading corporate digital identity provider, has joined Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) as an Associate Member. The addition of Encompass widens the pool of expertise available to further develop FMSB’s work, via its P … … read more.

Financial Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) has today published the Transparency Draft of its updated Statement of Good Practice (“SoGP”) for Front Office Supervision of Wholesale Traded Markets.  Background The Front Office Supervision SoGP was first p … … read more.

  We were honoured to welcome the Governor of the Bank of England and the Executive Director for Markets to our Standards Board meeting last week hosted by UBS. As we approach the tenth anniversary of the Fair and Effective Markets Review, which led to … … read more.