Background
- Non profit organization
- Established on December 13, 1999 by a group of individual professionals from the Unit Trust, Life Insurance, Stock broking, Legal, Asset Management & Financial Planning Profession
- Professional membership and standard setting body for CFP professionals
- Currently has 32 Charter and 10 Corporate Members
- More than 8,000 individual members now

are certification marks owned outside the U.S. by Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd. Financial Planning Association of Malaysia is the marks licensing authority for the CFP marks in Malaysia, through agreement with FPSB.