The Jordan Securities Commission briefed the Parliamentary Finance Committee as it reviewed the draft budgets for the national capital market institutions, highlighting a supervisory agenda focused on stronger transparency and disclosure, upgraded electronic monitoring systems and expanded financing tools in the securities market. The draft budget for the Securities Commission was put at about JOD 5 million, up around JOD 1.7 million, with most of the increase allocated to capital expenditure. The committee requested reports on the Commission’s achievements during 2025 and its 2026 executive plan, as well as information on market disclosure and controls, the Commission’s role in trading treasury bonds, investor satisfaction and rights protection, and the status of companies suspended from trading. The Commission chair, Imad Abu Haltam, pointed to a legislative framework covering securities, sukuk, regulation of dealing in foreign exchange and virtual assets, and linked higher capital spending to modernising technical infrastructure and service levels. He also described how some public shareholding companies have been suspended from trading in the regular market and moved to the unlisted securities market due to late submission of periodic financial statements and annual reports, alongside recently applied restricted trading instructions that allow trading in the regular market with a 1.5-hour trading session and a 3% daily up or down limit. In the same session, the Amman Stock Exchange reported improved listed-company results, higher trading volumes and increased foreign investment, while the Securities Depository Center cited continued development of electronic services for custody, transfer of ownership and settlement and reported revenue of JOD 2.8 million and expenses of JOD 2.3 million. The committee also pressed for clarification of obstacles behind low demand for public shareholding companies as a financing channel for major projects.

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