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The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) is the national securities regulator of Israel. Established by law in 1968, the Israel Securities Authority sees its mandate as a way to ensure an efficient capital market based on transparency and fairness.

The ISA works to fight against securities fraud, insider trading, questionable accounting practices and other activities which could harm Israel’s capital marketplace and Israel’s investor community.

Israel Bans Binary Options Sales Abroad, Hauser Highlights Damage to Country’s Image

October 23, 2017

Israel’s parliament on Monday unanimously passed a law banning local firms from selling binary options overseas. The ban will officially come into effect within three months of this approval. This is a signi...

Israeli Financial Watchdog to Evaluate Legitimacy of ICOs

August 30, 2017

Prof. Shmuel Hauser, head of the Israeli Securities Authority (ISA), announced today the establishment of a committee that will review the need to regulate initial coin offerings (ICO). The committee’s mandat...

Israeli Financial Watchdog to Evaluate Legitimacy of ICOs

August 30, 2017

Israeli Binary Options Technology Providers Won’t Be Allowed to Operate Systems

August 7, 2017

The latest draft of the legislation banning Israeli binary options marketing has just been unanimously approved by the Knesset Reforms Committee, making it almost certain to be accepted into law as is. The ap...

Israeli Regulator: ICOs Are a Challenge to Current Global Regulations

July 10, 2017

If anyone in the blockchain and cryptocurrency community was still wondering if regulators are aware of ICOs (initial coin offerings), we just got an answer. Israel’s chief financial watchdog gave a very hard...

Israeli Government Approves New Binary Options Law

June 18, 2017

A major milestone has been reached today, with the approval of an amendment to the securities law by a ministerial legislative committee of the Israeli government. The amendment will ban the marketing of bina...

Israeli Government Expected to Pass New Binary Options Law Next Week

June 15, 2017

Binary options are under the spotlight of Israeli authorities once more. On Sunday, June 18th 2017, the Minister of Finance, Moshe Kachlon, (pictured above, right) will present an amendment to the securities ...

Israeli Watchdog Head: “Binary Options are Like Blood Diamonds”

June 13, 2017

Prof. Shmuel Hauser, Head of the Israeli Securities Authority (ISA), compared binary options to the blood diamonds mining industry on the African continent, speaking at the Globes Capital Markets conference...

New Israeli Law Will Ban Marketing of Binary Options Abroad

February 23, 2017

Israel is moving to ban Israeli firms from marketing binary options abroad. Foreign exchange brokers with an Israeli license will not be allowed to offer FX or onboard clients of foreign countries if they don...

anyoption Closes Israeli Call Center, Lays Off Dozens of Employees

February 20, 2017

Only two weeks after the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) published a new circular targeting binary options providers operating in non-European countries, the largest Israeli provider anyopti...