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Illustrative tasks include:
Contract No. PCE-I-OO-99-00008-00
Page 20
Review and assess policy, regulatory, and
institutional developments and progress in the capital
markets arena;
Establish licensing, regulation and examination
procedures for securities firms;
Examination of legal and regulatory frameworks,
including oversight and inspection of clearance and
settlement organizations, securities registrars,
custodians, depositaries and transfer agents;
Establishing disclosure and reporting standards for
public issues of securities and publicly-owned
issuers;
Reviewing registration, regulation and examination
procedures of investment funds and investment
advisers;
Increasing trading capacity;
Establishing on-line surveillance systems;
Establishing off-site back systems;
Training stock brokers and traders to improve capital
market skills and increase effectiveness of staff
trained in market surveillance;
Conducting capital market research;
Developing debt mechanisms to establish markets for
securitized assets and convertible debt;
Designing and building cost-effective, automated and
integrated systems to support trading, clearance,
settlement and the information management requirements
of a stock exchange;
Working with host country officials to develop public
awareness programs that will include, educational and
promotional TV, newspaper articles and training
programs for journalists, fact sheets and brochures,
public presentations to key groups, and improve the
quality and quantity of information;
Contractor performance shall be evaluated against the following
performance standards:
(a)
Information/reporting systems assure transparency and
disclosure consistent with US industry standards;