Exchanges have suggested several complementary rationales for establishing themselves as a source of corporate governance-related regulations. In essence, by raising transparency and discouraging illegal or irregular practices, exchanges are themselves able to accumulate an amount of “reputational capital”. The responses provided by stock exchanges to the IOSCO Consultation Report on Regulatory Issues Arising from Exchange Evolution (2006) generally took issue with the report's suggestion that "for profit exchanges may be tempted to lower standards to try to generate additional revenue." In particular following demutualisation, this line of argument has ncreasingly become a cornerstone of exchanges’ defence of.
