IOSCO Roadmap to Retail Investor Online Safety
Raising awareness, inspiring action
November 2024 – November 2025
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Wave 1: November 2024
- Media Release - IOSCO unveils New Roadmap to enhance Retail Investor Online Safety
- Consultation Reports
Shining the light on IOSCO’s policy work on key retail market conduct challenges.
- Finfluencers – Establishing good practices to manage the potential risks on retail investors that may stem from Finfluencer activity, while also recognizing the value some of them can provide in reaching new investor demographics with important financial insights.
- Copy Trading – Setting good practices for platforms that allow investors to replicate trades from other investors, with a focus on encouraging responsible and informed trading behaviors.
- Digital Engagement Practices – Setting good practices to address issues related to digital marketing, gamification, and other engagement techniques. These practices will help protect investors while allowing them to benefit from user-friendly platforms that can facilitate financial inclusion.
Wave 2: March 2025
- Consultation Report
- Engagement with online platform providers
- Launch new unauthorized entity warning system I-SCAN
As well as sharing IOSCO’s recommendations on Neo-brokers, we engage directly with online platform providers to encourage collaboration on combating online fraud. During this wave, we will introduce an enhanced Unauthorized Entity Warning System 2.0; an information sharing system for regulators worldwide to identify unauthorized entities quickly and effectively.
Wave 3: May 2025
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Joint Roundtable with OECD
The IOSCO-OECD Roundtable on Empowering and Protecting Retail Investors was successfully held on 14 May 2025 in Doha, as part of the IOSCO Annual Meeting 2025. The roundtable brought together global regulators and experts to explore emerging trends in retail investing and share innovative approaches to enhance investor protection and resilience in the digital age.
- Final Reports
- Online Imitative Trading Practices: Copy Trading, Mirror Trading, Social Trading
- Digital Engagement Practices (DEPs)
- Finfluencers
- Publication of Statement for online Platform Providers
Wave 4: October 2025
- 9th edition of World Investor Week 2025
Continuing with our education theme and leading into the 9th edition of IOSCO’s World Investor Week (WIW), we will campaign our learnings and offer a host of educational events via more than 100 jurisdictions who come together each year in support of financial education and literacy.
Wave 5: November 2025
- Publication FINAL report on Neo-brokers
- Summary of Impact
Concluding our year-long campaign to support retail investor online safety, we publish our last Final Report from Wave 2. We summarize and highlight all IOSCO’s initiatives and accomplishments throughout the year in support of retail investors and point to the future.
