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Canadian Financial Organizations

• The Canadian Public Accountability Board (CPAB) is a new independent organization established to oversee auditors of public companies.
• The Centre for the Financial Services OmbudsNetwork (CFSON) brings together and builds on
  long-established consumer redress mechanisms in the financial services industry. Members represent the entire financial service community nationwide.
• The Canadian Capital Markets Association (CCMA) is a not-for-profit organization, which has been launched to identify, analyze and recommend ways to meet the challenges and opportunities facing Canadian and international capital markets.
• The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited (CDS) is Canada's national securities depository, clearing and settlement center and a provider of other securities information and processing services.
• The Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) is a professional industry association of the chartered banks of Canada.
• The Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) is a federal Crown corporation created to provide deposit insurance for certain eligible deposits and to contribute to the stability of Canada's financial system.
• The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) is the industry association of the Canadian investment fund industry.
• The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) is the primary regulator of federally regulated financial institutions and federally regulated (private) pension plans.

Exchanges

• Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)
• TSX Venture Exchange (TSX Venture)
• Montreal Exchange (MX)
• Natural Gas Exchange (NGX)
• ICE Futures Canada (formerly the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange)
• Canadian Trading and Quotation System Inc. (CNQ)

Self Regulatory Organizations

• The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) is the national self-regulatory organization that oversees all investment dealers and trading activity on debt and equity marketplaces in Canada. Created in 2008 through the consolidation of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada and Market Regulation Services Inc, IIROC sets high quality regulatory and investment industry standards, protects investors and strengthens market integrity while maintaining efficient and competitive capital markets.
• The Mutual Fund Dealers Association (MFDA) is the national self-regulatory organization of the mutual fund industry.
• The mission of the Chambre de la sécurité financière is to ensure that the financial sector professionals whose operations it governs act in the interest of consumers by offering them products and services that protect and stimulate the growth of their family assets. It accomplishes this mission by carefully regulating the practices and promoting the ongoing development of skills of these professionals in Quebec.
• The Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF) protects clients' cash and securities held in an IDA, Toronto Stock Exchange, Canadian Venture Exchange or Montreal Exchange member firm if the firm becomes financially insolvent.
• The Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation (CDCC) is the issuer, clearinghouse, and guarantor of exchange-traded interest rate and equity derivative contracts traded in Canada.

International Regulatory Associations

• The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is an organization of
  securities commissions around the world established to cooperate to promote high standards of regulation, to exchange information and to unite to establish standards and effective surveillance of international securities transactions.
• The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) is a forum for securities regulators in Europe established to respond to the challenges of creating a European single market in financial services.
• The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) is an international and voluntary organization devoted to investor protection whose membership consists of state, provincial, and territorial securities administrators in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico.
• The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) is the largest securities-industry self-regulatory organization in the United States.
• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the U.S. securities regulatory and enforcement agency which administers and enforces federal securities laws in order to protect investors, and to maintain fair, honest, and efficient markets.