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International Capital Market Association

Global financial trade association

Field	Value
name	International Capital Market Association
logo	Icma-logo.png
abbreviation	ICMA
predecessor	International Primary Market Association and the International Securities Market Association
formation	in Zurich
type	Nonprofit Trade Association
purpose	Advocate for the debt capital market participants
location_city	Zurich
location_country	Switzerland
addnl_location_city	Additional offices in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Brussels
region_served	Worldwide, with focus on Europe
services	Trade group & Advocacy group
website

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) is a not-for-profit global trade association, for participants in the cross-border debt capital markets, with offices in Zurich, London, Paris, Brussels and Hong Kong.

ICMA provides industry-driven standards and recommendations. ICMA works with regulatory and governmental authorities, helping to ensure that financial regulation supports stable and efficient capital markets.

Since 2014, ICMA has been providing the Secretariat for the Principles (the Green Bond Principles (GBP), the Social Bond Principles (SBP), the Sustainability Bond Guidelines (SBG) and the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles (SLBP)) that underpin the global sustainable bond market. Since December 2022, ICMA has also been providing the Secretariat to the voluntary Code of Conduct for ESG Ratings and Data Providers.

Originally established in Zurich under Swiss Law (Zurich) in February 1969 as the Association of International Bond Dealers (AIBD), the International Capital Market Association was formed in July 2005 from the merger of International Primary Market Association and the International Securities Market Association (formerly the AIBD) to create an association that covered both primary and secondary international capital markets.

History

The International Capital Market Association has its roots in the creation of the Eurobond market in the early 1960s. Eurobonds created a new market in borrowing in US dollars offshore to avoid US tax regulations, but this itself introduced new problems with settlement and regulation across different jurisdictions. In response a group of bond dealers representing banks and securities firms established the Association of International Bond Dealers (AIBD) in 1969.

In the years that followed, AIBD enacted a series of rules and recommendations governing market practice, providing stability and order to the international capital market.

In the 1980s AIBD began to provide data services to the market and in 1989 launched the transaction matching, confirmation and regulatory reporting system, known as TRAX. In 1992 AIBD changed its name to International Securities Market Association (ISMA).

Separately the International Primary Market Association (IPMA) was founded in 1984 by a number of major banks to provide basic recommendations for the primary capital market.

In April 2009, ICMA sold its market services business, including TRAX, to Euroclear.

References

"ICMA Mission Statement".

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