The world's leading private sector provider of financial regulatory services that has helped bring integrity to markets, and confidence to investors, for over 50 years. It oversees the activities of more than 5,165 brokerage firms, around 104,117 branch offices and over 660,950 registered securities representatives. It also provides outsourced regulators products and services to a number of stock markets and exchanges, licenses individuals and admits firms to the industry, writes rules to govern their behaviour, examines them for regulatory compliance and disciplines those who fail to comply.