Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Remarks Before the IOSCO Annual Conference


Commissioner Roel C. Campos, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
at Mumbai, India


I. Introduction.
Good morning. At the outset, I'd like to thank M. Damodaran for being such an excellent host to this conference. In addition, it's definitely a pleasure to be part of such a distinguished panel, and I appreciate all of the work that Arthur Doctors van Leeuwen has done in organizing the topics for it. In any event, before I begin, I must remind you that the comments I make today are my own and do not reflect the opinions of the staff or the other Commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

II. A Critical Mass?

Let me start by noting that in the nearly five years in which I've worked with IOSCO, I've never seen more interest with respect to the growing globalization of the securities markets and international securities regulation than in the last few months. Perhaps this is just an American perspective and that we're just late to the party, but I do sense that we may be approaching critical mass on some of these issues.

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