Upcoming Training Programs

IOSCO-IFRSF Capacity Building Program on Sustainable Finance: Disclosure Requirements for Corporate Issuers, Technical Training Program, Budapest, Hungary, 28-29 January 2025

IOSCO has developed a capacity building program to support an efficient implementation of the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards. The program is exclusively tailored for securities regulators that are members of IOSCO. As part of this capacity building program, IOSCO, together with the IFRS Foundation, is organizing a two-day technical training workshop for IOSCO members from European growth an emerging markets, hosted by the Central Bank of Hungary in Budapest, Hungary, on 28-29 January 2025. The workshop is open to IOSCO members only and is free of charge. For all details, please visit the Members Area.

IOSCO-Wharton Online FinTech Course: Financial Technologies and Regulatory Implications

IOSCO, in partnership with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has developed a new IOSCO NEXTGEN capacity building program: the IOSCO-Wharton Online FinTech Course: Financial Technologies and Regulatory Implications.

This is a foundational course tailored to financial market regulators and exclusively offered to staff at all levels from IOSCO member organizations that seek to enhance their knowledge about the foundations of financial technologies and the related implications for financial markets regulation. For all details, please visit the Members Area.

Machine-Assisted Capacity Building Tool for Standards Implementation (‘MASI’) in collaboration with Cambridge University

IOSCO, in collaboration with Cambridge University, developed a Machine-Assisted Capacity Building Tool for Standards Implementation (‘MASI’). This online platform is an AI-driven capacity-building tool intended to support self-assessments against the IOSCO Principles and to facilitate comparisons with other regulatory frameworks. It is best suited to the needs of policy analysis and regulatory comparison. It should however not be regarded as an assessment tool for central evaluation of standards implementation. Following an initial testing phase, MASI has now been launched on a complimentary basis for all IOSCO members from growth and emerging markets. For all details, please visit the Members Area.

IOSCO Asia Pacific Hub Webinar on 2025 Regional Outlook: Emerging Regulatory Risks for the Asia Pacific Region, 7 February 2025

The IOSCO Asia Pacific Hub will be hosting its first program in 2025 on emerging regulatory risks anticipated for capital markets in the Asia Pacific region. It will begin with an analysis of the expected regional macroeconomic conditions and challenges that could impact the regulatory landscape.

Emerging risks that would be covered more extensively include areas in sustainable finance, the transformative role of digitalisation and AI, and the potential dynamic changes within traditional markets. It would also briefly cover emerging regulatory risks and proposed strategies in the ASEAN capital markets.

Participants will gain insights on regulatory issues that could shape regional markets, helping to inform policy direction in the region moving forward.

The webinar is open to IOSCO members only and is offered free of charge. For all details, please visit the Members Area.

IOSCO-IFRSF Capacity Building Program on Sustainable Finance: Disclosure Requirements for Corporate Issuers, Technical Training Program, Doha, Qatar, 24-25 February 2025

IOSCO has developed a capacity building program to support an efficient implementation of the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards. The program is exclusively tailored for securities regulators that are members of IOSCO. As part of this capacity building program, IOSCO, together with the IFRS Foundation, is organizing a two-day technical training workshop for IOSCO members from the Africa/Middle-East region, hosted by the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority in Doha, Qatar, on 24-25 February 2025. The workshop is open to IOSCO members only and is offered free of charge. For all details, please visit the Members Area.

9th IOSCO-PIFS-Harvard Law School Global Certificate Program for Regulators of Securities Markets – Phase I, Madrid, Spain, 23-27 June 2025

IOSCO and the Program on International Financial Systems and Harvard Law School (PIFS-HLS) jointly developed this two-phase program to offer IOSCO members an executive education program that is exclusively tailored for regulators of securities markets. Attendees have up to three years to complete both phases of the Global Certificate Program. Successful attendees will be awarded a joint certificate of participation issued by IOSCO and PIFS-Harvard Law School. Also, IOSCO members may attend any part of the program on a non-certificate basis. This year marks the 9th edition of the program which was inaugurated in 2016.

Phase I, hosted by IOSCO, consists of the following components: online learning materials and a one week-long in-person module on regulation and compliance. The in-person module will be conducted at IOSCO´s premises in Madrid (Spain) from 23-27 June 2025 and will cover the fundamentals and intricacies of securities regulation and compliance and related current critical issues. These sessions will be delivered primarily by current or former securities regulators.
Phase II, hosted by PIFS-HLS, consists of a one week-long in-person module that will be conducted on campus at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge (Massachusetts, US) from 8-12 December 2025 (TBC). This one week-long session will examine current and future regulatory challenges and emerging issues and will be delivered by leading academics, securities regulators and public policy makers.

While any IOSCO member employee may attend the program, it is specifically designed for regulatory staff with strong leadership potential and approximately five to seven years of regulatory experience.

For all details, please visit the Members Area.

Toronto Centre-IOSCO Risk Based Supervision Program for Securities Regulators from Asia Pacific, Virtual, 15-19 September 2025

Together with the Toronto Centre, IOSCO has developed a virtual training program on risk-based supervision targeted at securities regulators from growth and emerging markets in the Asia Pacific region. This program builds on the success of previous programs for securities regulators in the Africa and Middle East region, the Inter-American region and the European region. The virtual program is offered on a complimentary basis to IOSCO growth and emerging market members from the Asia Pacific region and will run between 15 and 19 September 2025. For all details, please visit the Members Area.

27th IOSCO Seminar Training Program, Madrid, Spain, 4-6 November 2025

The annual IOSCO Seminar Training Program will take place in Madrid, Spain, from 4-6 November 2025. This year marks the 27th edition of the program which is open to all IOSCO members and free of charge. For all details, please visit the Members Area.

20th FSI-IOSCO Conference, Basel, Switzerland, 19-20 November 2025

The Financial Stability Institute (FSI) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and IOSCO are jointly organizing their annual Conference at the BIS in Basel, Switzerland, on 19 and 20 November 2025. This Conference, which is intended for bank supervisors and securities regulators, marks the twentieth year that FSI and IOSCO are organizing this important joint program. The Conference is open to IOSCO members and offered free of charge. For all details, please visit the Members Area.

9th IOSCO-PIFS-Harvard Law School Global Certificate Program for Regulators of Securities Markets – Phase II, Cambridge (MA), US, 8-12 December 2025 (TBC)