The Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) was created in 2009 to represent the securities and financial markets industry at the international level. It serves as an umbrella group for three regional organizations: * the

Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) is a United States industry trade group representing securities firms, banks, and asset management companies. SIFMA was formed on November 1, 2006, from the merger of the Bond Mar ...

(SIFMA), based in

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Association for Financial Markets in Europe The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) is an industry advocacy organization that represents wholesale market participants in Europe, including the European Union and the United Kingdom. It was formed in 2009 by the merger of the Lo ...

(AFME), based in

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Asian Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association The Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) was created in 2009 to represent the securities and financial markets industry at the international level. It serves as an umbrella group for three regional organizations: * the Securities Industry and ...

(ASIFMA), based in

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. The GFMA is one of the main channels of lobbying and advocacy for the financial services industry at the global level. It often takes policy positions together with peers such as the

Financial Services Forum The Financial Services Forum is an American, non-partisan economic policy and advocacy organization whose members are the chief executive officers of the eight largest and most diversified financial institutions headquartered in the United States ...

Futures Industry Association The Futures Industry Association (FIA) is a trade association in the United States composed of futures commission merchants. A futures commission merchant is analogous to a broker; they are entities that accept orders and payment for commodity fu ...

International Securities Lending Association The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) is an industry association representing the common interests of securities lending and financing market participants across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Its geographically diverse membersh ...

Bank Policy Institute The Bank Policy Institute (BPI) is an American financial services lobbying and advocacy organization, based in Washington, D.C. The Bank Policy Institute was formed in July 2018 by the merger of two older lobbying groups, the Financial Services ...

International Capital Market Association The International Capital Market Association or ICMA is a self-regulatory organization and trade association for participants in the capital markets. ICMA stated aims are to promote high standards of market practice, appropriate regulation, trad ...

Institute of International Finance An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can ...

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. Its research is frequently cited in financial services policy debates, even though as a trade body it may not always be viewed as providing a neutral point of view. The GFMA's secretariat is provided on a rotating basis by the three regional organizations on two-year terms. In March 2022, , Chief Executive of the

, became chief executive of GFMA on a two-year term.

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