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Securities and Futures Authority (the SFA)
The SFA is no longer in being -
see:
FSA (Financial Services Authority) Consumer information
Guidance issued as Board Notices
Annual Report and Accounts 2001
Report and Accounts for the Eight Months ended 30 November 2001
The Securities and Futures Authority (SFA) regulates about 1,300 firms involved in all the organised City investment markets - ie. the stock market, eurobond, financial futures, commodity futures markets - and also corporate finance specialists and off-market traders. About half SFA's firms are overseas-owned.
The SFA was incorporated as ISRO (FORMATION) LIMITED under company registration number 01998622 on 11th March 1986, changed its name to THE SECURITIES ASSOCIATION LIMITED (TSA) on 27th January 1987, changed its name to THE SECURITIES AND FUTURES AUTHORITY LIMITED on 1st April 1991 and was dissolved on 15th January 2003