The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) considers that both the international and local regulatory entities require additional power to deal with the heightening challenges and hazards witnessed after retail marketing as well as distribution became digitalized.
IOSCO Recommends to Implement Additional Scrutiny over the Financial Influencers
A report was published by IOSCO to propose the moves to be taken for the participant nations to ponder over the selection of a policy as well as the implementation of the approaches dealing with the online retail offerings as well as marketing, in line with the latest challenges emerging with the crypto assets’ expansion.
The report, while discussing the respective hazards, stresses the utilization of gamification and behavioral techniques along with focusing more on influencers involved in the market within the crypto sphere, labeling them as “finfluencers.” The respective report additionally touches on another notion named the “digital veil.”
Martin Moloney – the Secretary-General at IOSCO – stated that digital exploiters can wear a digital veil, making it difficult for the regulatory entities to detect as well as take adequate measures against them.
The actions themselves are barely unique. As proposed by IOSCO, the crypto products’ management should be given the responsibility to ensure the correctness of the information that the likely investors are provided.
Platforms Should Offer Precise Information to Likely Users via Social Media
In IOSCO’s words, the potential investors should be informed through social media platforms and the management should implement adequate filtering mechanisms to onboard the financial customers.
The series of supervisory capacities recommended by IOSCO for the local regulatory agencies take into account regulatory channels for the reporting of customer complaints related to illegal and misleading promotions.
The complaints additionally include evidence-tracking procedures to handle the rapid-paced and ever-changing online information.
Another interesting thing is the potential legal responsibility to be put on the crypto firms to possess particular staff qualifications as well as licensing requirements concerning the staff for online marketing, which is additionally suggested by IOSCO.
Another recommended action is to abide by the regulations of other countries while offering services to consumers belonging to some foreign zone. In this case, the platform’s obligation would be to check if it could be provided with the license for such an activity in the home country of the consumer.