The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission used its 30th anniversary conference to review its development as the country’s securities regulator and to set out the main supervisory issues it expects to face over the next decade. In remarks at the event, Chairman George Theocharides identified three defining challenges for supervisors as investor protection in the digital age, digitalised products and innovation, and market integrity. CySEC said it has evolved from a small structure in 1996 into an authority with more than 200 professionals and broader supervisory capabilities, including coverage of digital finance, financial technology and crypto-assets, alongside work on financial literacy and investor education. Contributions from European Securities and Markets Authority, International Organization of Securities Commissions and other European regulators focused on cross-border coordination and the risks and opportunities created by artificial intelligence, including cyber resilience, model opacity, market concentration and the potential use of AI-based tools in areas such as detecting market abuse, money laundering, terrorist financing and illegal offerings. To mark the anniversary, CySEC has created a dedicated section on its website that it said will be updated throughout the year with related material.

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