International Cooperation

The following is a list of international organisations and EU committees in which Finanstilsynet participates as a member or observer:

Cross-sectoral cooperation:

• Conference of Integrated Financial Supervisors (global)
• EFCC (European Financial Conglomerates Committee) 
• JCFC (Joint Committee on Financial Conglomerates) 

• International Conference of Banking Supervisors (organised every other year by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision) – www.bis.org/bcbs/ 
• OECD’s Financial Markets Committee
• EBC (European Banking Committee)
• EBA (European Banking Authority)
• BSC (Banking Supervision Committee) under the European System of Central Banks
• Nordic supervisory meetings

Insurance:

• IAIS (International Association of Insurance Supervisors)
• IOPS (International Organisation of Pension Supervisors) 
• OECD’s Insurance Committee
• EIOPC (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Committee)
• EIOPA (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority)
• Conference of European Insurance Supervisory Services (pan-european conference)
• Nordic supervisory meetings
• Nordic-Baltic supervisory meetings

• IOSCO (International Organization of Securities Commissions)  
• ECG (Enlarged Contact Group on Supervision of Collective Investment Funds)
• ESC (European Securities Committee)
• ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority)
• Nordic meetings

Accounting and auditing:

• IFIAR (International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators)
• ARC (Accounting Regulatory Committee)
• Accounting Contact Committee
• AuRC (Audit Regulatory Committee) 
• EGAOB (European Group of Auditors’ Oversight Bodies)
• Nordic meetings

Measures against money laundering and terrorist financing:

• FATF (Financial Action Task Force)
• CPMLTF (EU's Committee on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terror Financing)
• Nordic meetings

EFTA/European Economic Area: 

• EFTA Working Group on Financial Services - Currently chaired by Finanstilsynet
• EFTA Working Group on Company Law (includes accounting and auditing)