On 9 February 2026, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued its workplan for 2026.

IOSCO explains that it will build on its 2025 Work programme and that it intends keep its focus on strengthening capital markets. In particular, IOSCO’s key strategic priorities for 2026 are:

  1. Strengthening Financial Resilience and Market Effectiveness: this includes finalising existing workstreams in relation to the valuation of collective investment schemes, standards of disclosure in secondary markets and commodity derivative principles and furthering new initiatives such as addressing issues in relation to over-the-counter derivatives reporting, non-bank data availability and strengthening the operational resilience of financial market infrastructure.
  2. Protecting investors: working with the Financial Conduct Authority’s AI lab on launching its first tech sprint, further exploring work in relation to risks that might be introduced by novel products, such as crypto-finds, and engaging with platform providers to restrict fraudulent content.
  3. The evolution of Public and Private Markets: exploring the growing interconnectedness between private equity activities and the audit sector, contributing to the FSB’s deep dive on private credit and undertaking research work on the functioning of public markets.
  4. Technological transformation: key work on this will include consideration of the opportunities and risks arising from the adoption of AI and the intersection of digital assets with traditional finance and the rise of tokenization, advancing its crypto-asset roadmap by finalizing a formal methodology for crypto and digital assets assessments, and developing a supervisory tool kit on AI and guidance for firms.
  5. Promoting regulatory cooperation and effectiveness: a key priority will be to assist members from emerging markets to build sound and robust capital markets through enhanced capacity building and also continuing to drive forward regulatory co-operation in particular through the IOSCO Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding and by encouraging them to upgrade to the Enhanced MMoU, as we as continuing to support non-signatories in meeting the requirements for adoption.