The International Capital Market Association

ICMA is a not-for-profit membership association, headquartered in Zurich with offices in London, Paris and Hong Kong, that serves the needs of its wide range of member firms in global capital markets. As of March 2020, ICMA has around 620 members in 66 jurisdictions.

Among its members are private and public sector issuers, banks and securities houses, asset managers and other investors, capital market infrastructure providers, central banks, law firms and others.

The mission of ICMA is to promote resilient well-functioning international and globally coherent cross-border debt securities markets, which are essential to fund sustainable economic growth and development.  The association provides industry-driven standards and recommendations for issuance, trading and settlement in international fixed income and related instruments; and liaises closely with regulatory and governmental authorities, both at the national and supranational level, to help to ensure that financial regulation