international capital market association - icma
London
The mission of ICMA is to promote resilient well-functioning international and
globally coherent cross-border debt securities markets, which are essential to
fund sustainable economic growth and development. In pursuit of its mission,
ICMA is committed to: building trust in the market by promoting internationally
accepted standards of best practice through the development of appropriate,
broadly accepted guidelines, rules, recommendations and standard documentation,
aimed at maintaining and enhancing the framework of cross-border issuing,
trading and investing in debt securities; contributing to the development of
sustainable finance through the capital markets; encouraging information flows
and dialogue between all participants in the international capital markets:
borrowers, intermediaries and investors, and service providers, including
trading platforms, clearing houses and law firms; engaging with international
and national regulators and policy makers and providing them with market
expertise and technical knowledge across all ICMA’s core areas, to assist in
ensuring that financial regulation promotes the resilience, efficiency and cost
effectiveness of international capital markets; providing networking
opportunities for market participants through conferences, seminars, roundtables
and other events; promoting high professional standards for capital market
participants by providing training and education opportunities.
