Unethical or illegal practices by market participants not only violate investor rights but can also impact an entire market’s reputation. Thus, market regulators set professional codes of ethics that support both investor protection and market integrity. Although all markets gravitate toward applying international best practices governing market operations, each market structures its own rules, compliance and enforcement on its own regulatory infrastructure. For specific market standards and accepted practices, please refer to individual market pages.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Principles of Corporate Governance, linked below, serve as a guideline among market regulators when drawing up and enforcing market rules, regulations, procedures and codes.