The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) is an autonomous public institution situated at the heart of Brussels.
The FSMA has been entrusted with a wide range of competences by lawmakers. They include the supervision of financial products, of the conduct of business rules, of the financial markets and of the information of companies, of financial service providers and of supplementary pensions. The FSMA also supports the supervisory activities in respect of the profession of statutory auditor.
Through its supervision, the FSMA strives to ensure the provision of appropriate financial services, the honest and equitable treatment of financial consumers and the transparency of financial markets by seeing to it that companies that raise financing on those markets provide correct and complete information.
The FSMA also actively contributes to better financial education of citizens.
By doing so, the FSMA wishes to guarantee that the financial system is worthy of its clients’ confidence.