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| Committee of European Securities Regulators | CESR is an independent Committee of European Securities Regulators. The role of the Committee and its operational arrangements are set out in the CESR Charter. |
| Europa | The European Commission embodies and upholds the general interests of the Union and is the driving force in the Union's institutional system. Its four main roles are to propose legislation to Parliament and the Council, to administer and implement Community policies, to enforce Community law (jointly with the Court of Justice) and to negotiate international agreements, mainly those relating to trade and cooperation. This link refers to its financial services website. |
| HM Treasury - Financial Services | The Treasury's financial services objective is to secure an innovative, fair dealing, competitive and efficient market in financial services, while striking the right balance with regulation in the public interest. |
| Committee of European Banking Supervisors | Committee of European Banking Supervisors gives advice to the European Commission on banking policy issues and promotes cooperation and convergence of supervisory practice across the European Union. The Committee will also foster and review common implementation and consistent application of Community legislation. |
| British Bankers' Association | The BBA is the leading UK banking and financial services trade association and acts on behalf of its members on domestic and international issues. The BBA's 253 members and associate members are from 60 different countries and collectively provide the full range of banking and financial services. They operate some 130 million personal accounts, contribute £35bn to the economy, and together make up the world's largest international banking centre. |
| European Corporate Governance Institute | The ECGI is an international scientific non-profit association. It provides a forum for debate and dialogue between academics, legislators and practitioners, focusing on major corporate governance issues and thereby promoting best practice. |
| Investment Management Association | The IMA is the trade body for the UK's £2800 billion asset management industry. The money its members manage is in a wide variety of investment vehicles including authorised investment funds, pension funds and stocks and shares ISAs. |
| Direct Marketing Association Legal Advice | The Direct Marketing Association UK is Europe's largest trade association in the marketing and communications sector. The DMA was formed in 1992, following the merger of various like-minded trade bodies, forming a single voice to protect the direct marketing industry from legislative threats and promote its development. |
| Information Commissioner's Office | The Information Commissioner's Office is the UK's independent authority set up to promote access to official information and to protect personal information. |
| Financial Ombudsman Service | FOS was set up to help settle individual disputes between businesses providing financial services and their customers. |
| Finance & Leasing Association | The FLA campaigns for best practice in lending and leasing. This site provides guidance for business on the types of finance products (explaining some of the words used), the benefits to business of hire purchase and leasing, and some specific sector advice. This site also contains tips on company identity theft and fraud prevention. |
| International Organisation of Securities Commissions | The International Organisation of Securities Commissions is an international association of securities regulators that was created in 1983. |
| Bank for International Settlements/Basel Committee on Banking Supervision | The Bank for International Settlements is an international organisation which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks. |
| International Association of Insurance Supervisors | Established in 1994, the IAIS represents insurance regulators and supervisors of some 180 jurisdictions in more than 130 countries, constituting 97% of the world's insurance premiums. It also has more than 100 observers. |
| International Capital Market Association | The International Capital Market Association is the self-regulatory organisation and trade association which represents constituents and practitioners in the international capital market worldwide. |
| International Swaps and Derivatives Association | ISDA, which represents participants in the privately negotiated derivatives industry, is the largest global financial trade association by number of member firms. ISDA was chartered in 1985, and today has over 797 member institutions from 54 countries on six continents. |