Compendium of Standards
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1 September 2009 Principles and Implementation Standards for Sound Compensation Practices
The Principles and Standards for Sound Compensation Practices intend to reduce incentives towards excessive risk taking that may arise from the structure of compensation schemes for significant financial institutions. -
1 July 2009 Principles on Outsourcing by Markets
Outsourcing poses important challenges to the integrity and effectiveness of the financial and capital markets and for the market authorities. -
1 June 2009 Report on Good Practices in Relation to Investment Managers' Due Diligence When Investing in Structured Finance Instruments
IOSCO establishes good practices in relation to investment managers' due diligence when investing in structured finance instruments. -
1 June 2009 Hedge Funds Oversight
This report contains six high level principles on the regulation of hedge funds including mandatory registration, appropriate disclosures and sharing of information. -
1 June 2009 Regulation of Short Selling
IOSCO developed high-level principles for the effective regulation of short selling. These principles are designed to assist regulators in their consideration of a regulatory regime for short selling. -
12 May 2009 Due diligence and transparency regarding cover payment messages related to cross-border wire transfers
This document describes the supervisory expectations for the information that must be included in payment messages related to cover payments, the various mechanisms that must be used to ensure that complete and accurate information has been included in such messages, and the use that should be made of the information for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism purposes. -
6 May 2009 Funding of Deposit Insurance Systems
This IADI guidance paper examines various approaches to funding used by deposit insurers and suggests guidance on the design of funding mechanisms and other closely related features of deposit insurance system. -
6 May 2009 Public Awareness of Deposit Insurance Systems
The paper provides guidance on how to promote effective public awareness of deposit insurance system. -
6 May 2009 Guidance on Governance of Deposit Insurance Systems
This IADI guidance paper reviews the governance frameworks used by deposit insurers and, where appropriate, suggests guidance in the form of principles and effective practices in order to enhance the sound governance of deposit insurance systems. -
1 April 2009 Supervisory guidance for assessing banks' financial instrument fair value practices
The principles in this document promote strong governance processes around valuations; the use of reliable inputs and diverse information sources; the articulation and communication of valuation uncertainty to internal and external stakeholders; the allocation of sufficient banking and supervisory resources to the valuation process; independent verification and validation processes; consistency in valuation practices for risk management and reporting purposes, where possible; and strong supervisory oversight around bank valuation practices.