Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission

Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission
Επιτροπή Κεφαλαιαγοράς
Agency overview
Formed2001 (2001)
JurisdictionRepublic of Cyprus
HeadquartersNicosia, Cyprus
Employees199 (April 2024)[citation needed]
Agency executive
  • Dr. George Theocharides, Chairman
Websitewww.cysec.gov.cy

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, (Greek: Επιτροπή Κεφαλαιαγοράς) better known as CySEC, is the financial regulatory agency of Cyprus. As an EU member state, CySEC's financial regulations and operations comply with the European MiFID financial harmonization law.

A significant number of overseas retail forex brokers have obtained registration from CySEC.[1] Before 2018, CySEC had been a regulator of choice for many binary options brokers.[2][3][4]

Nicosia financial district
  1. ^ Saks-McLeod, Andrew (16 February 2017). "Who cares about offshore licensing? Nobody…". FinanceFeeds. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  2. ^ Cornish, Chloe (2 February 2017). "Inside the high stakes world of online investing: binary options". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  3. ^ Weinglass, Simona; Guimbert, Charlotte (18 May 2016). "Are 'regulated' binary options companies any better?". Times of Israel. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  4. ^ Kalogerou, Demetra (4 June 2018). "C271 Circular on Product Intervention Measures". CySEC. Retrieved 27 September 2022.