Financial Supervisory Authority in brief

The Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA) is the authority for supervision of Finland’s financial and insurance sectors as well as the macroprudential authority. We are part of the European system of financial supervision and the common banking supervision for the euro area.

Our activities are aimed at ensuring financial stability, confidence in the financial markets as well as customer and investor protection, and the protection of insured interests. The effectiveness and efficiency of our supervision must represent the highest level in Europe.

The entities supervised by us include

banks
insurance and pension institutions
other actors in the insurance sector
investment firms
management companies
the central securities depository
the stock exchange.

In addition, we supervise listed companies’ compliance with the disclosure obligation and securities trading. Our activities are mainly funded by the supervised entities. The number of personnel of the FIN-FSA’s expert organisation amounted to 233 at the end of the year. Administratively, the FIN-FSA operates in connection with the Bank of Finland, but in its supervisory work, it takes its decisions independently.

The FIN-FSA seeks to ensure that

the operations of its supervised entities are on a sound footing and supervised entities hold sufficient capital resources to cover the risks and losses arising from their operations and are able to meet their commitments
the information provided to customers and investors on products, services, service providers and issuers is of high quality
financial market practices are appropriate
payment systems are secure.

For more information, see finanssivalvonta.fi/en/ > FIN-FSA > About FIN-FSA

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