The Central Bank of Bahrain’s (CBB) statutory regulatory objectives include maintaining and promoting the fairness, efficiency, competitiveness, transparency and orderliness of the securities markets in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The CBB believes that investor confidence in the fairness of markets enhances liquidity and efficiency of the markets and for this purpose, it is essential that the laws and standards governing the markets are rigorously and credibly enforced. In this respect, the CBB is making continuous efforts to ensure that the rules are strongly and fairly enforced, with proscribed behaviour clearly and unambiguously defined.