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Regulatory & Market Oversight Division (RMOD)

Purpose Statement

To promote market transparency, integrity and efficiency by protecting and advancing stakeholders’ welfare through the enforcement of rules, market surveillance, broker inspections and the assessment of market documents and financial statements.

Who We Are?

By Board Resolution dated November 13, 2007 the Board of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) approved the establishment of the Regulatory and Market Oversight Committee (“the RMOC”) and a Regulatory and Market Oversight Division (RMOD). The Board delegated its regulatory powers to the RMOC. The RMOC is comprised of the Independent Members of the Board and will be responsible for Market Oversight, Standards and Regulation. The Board also ceded to the RMOC the power to make final decisions in regard to the regulation of the market. Based on this authority no market regulatory activity will be considered by the Board of the JSE and all decisions of the Committee will be final.

What We Do?

The RMOD has the responsibility and powers to:

  • Monitor the adequacy and effectiveness of the Exchange’s regulatory programme and assess the Exchange’s regulatory performance.
  • Meet with the Chief Regulatory Officer (CRO) on a regular basis to review the RMOD’s operational matters.
  • Structure and direct the regulatory functions of the Exchange.
  • Establish regulatory rules of the Exchange.
  • Monitor the compliance with the Exchange’s rules by market participants and listed companies.
  • Monitor member dealers trading activities, investigation of trading activities and enforcement of the Exchange’s Rules.

RMOD Structure

Regulatory and Market Oversight Committee

Miss Dian Black  Dian Black is the Director of Securities Management (Debt Management Unit) in the Ministry of Finance & Planning. In this capacity she has responsibility for all activities related to the registrar and payments functions for government securities and provides the necessary interface between the JSE and the Government.

Mrs. Jane George  Mrs. Jane George qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1989 and practised as a solicitor in the City of London before coming to live in Jamaica in 1996. She joined Dunn, Cox, Orrett and Ashenheim (now DunnCox) in 1996, leaving in 2001 to take up the post of Corporate Attorney-at-Law for Lascelles, deMercado & Co. Ltd, a company listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, and its group of companies, one of Jamaica’s largest and oldest established conglomerates. She became Company Secretary to Lascelles, deMercado & Co. Ltd in 2005.

Mrs. Janet Morrison Janet Morrison was called to the Jamaican Bar in 1978 and has been a partner at DunnCox since 1995. Her practice is primarily in the areas of Corporate and Commercial Law. Janet is also the Chairman of the Justice Reform Committee of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica and is a member of the board of the Jamaica Stock Exchange. She is listed in IFLR 1000 as one of the world’s leading lawyers.

Janet is also chairman of the Justice Reform Committee of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica and is a member of the board of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, and Jamaica Institute of Arbitrators Limited, a charitable organization. Janet became a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2011.

RMOD Resource Team

Mr. Andrae Tulloch (Chief Regulatory Officer)

Mr. Andrae Tulloch joined the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) in 2008 in the position of Regulatory Officer, in 2010 assumed the role of Deputy Chief Regulatory Officer, Regulation and in 2019 was promoted to Chief Regulatory Officer, As Chief Regulatory Officer, Mr. Tulloch ensures that the JSE’s regulatory and compliance interests are conducted in accordance with the rules of the JSE.

 

Mr. Tulloch has a Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in finance and is an ACCA candidate. Mr. Tulloch has nine years experience in the financial sector, as well as, with the Ministry of Justice as an accountant assisting in the investigation and administration of companies in liquidation and bankrupt estates.