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Oversight Scope

Effective from Aug 04 2021 - Aug 03 2021
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The oversight scope refers to the different types of payment and financial systems and settlement infrastructures like Payment Systems, Securities Settlement Systems (SSS), Central Counter Parties (CCP), Central Depository Companies (CDC) and Trade Repositories (TR) that will either be subject to SAMA’s direct oversight or will be overseen in coordination with other regulators like Capital Markets Authority. Further, SAMA in order to ensure the smooth functioning of the payment and financial settlement will also oversee the payment instruments, critical infrastructure providers. Consequently SAMA’s oversight scope will cover the following: