On 4 April at the 2017 Plenary Meeting of  the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators (IFIAR) in Tokyo Japan Donald Cockburn, Managing Director of AOA, was one of twenty two signatories to the IFIAR Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMOU). AOA was approved as a signatory to the MMOU after a review by IFIAR and approval by IFIAR membership. The MMOU allows for co-operation in the exchange of information between audit regulators around the world. Approval of AOA as a signatory is a sign of the growing stature of the Cayman Islands in the audit regulatory world. Among the 22 signatories are audit regulators from the UK, US, Canada, France, Netherlands Australia and fifteen other countries.