The Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission (TTSEC) published an update on its participation in the 2025 Annual Conference of the Caribbean Group of Securities Regulators (CGSR), where Deputy Chief Executive Officer Lystra Lucillio delivered opening remarks focused on regulatory innovation, collaboration, and resilience as securities markets become more connected and technology-driven. Lucillio highlighted the pace of technological change and the region’s exposure to shifting global economic conditions and high-tech market disruptions, arguing for risk-based supervision, data-driven oversight, and joint regulatory action supported by continuous information sharing under the regional Memorandum of Understanding. She also stressed the need to balance fintech expansion and increased digital market activity with safeguards for investors and market integrity, noting the accelerating use of artificial intelligence across the financial system and referencing national discussions on widening investor participation, supporting SME listings, digitising market infrastructure, integrating ESG principles, and strengthening technological competencies. The two-day conference agenda covered risk-based supervision, oversight challenges in increasingly digital markets, fintech developments, regulation of virtual assets and virtual asset service providers, modernising disclosure and market discipline, and regional regulatory harmonisation. Day 1 was facilitated by the Toronto Centre training team, with Day 2 technical discussions and the closing conference led by CGSR Chair Keron Burrell of Jamaica’s Financial Services Commission.

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