Market abuse

On 27 September 2023, the City of London Corporation and the FCA announced the launch of an authorised push payment (APP) synthetic dataset to develop products and services that can minimise fraud.

The dataset will be hosted on the FCA’s permanent Digital Sandbox and provides a foundation to better understand how useful data

On 17 July 2023, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a report on Suspicious Transactions and Order Reports (STORs).

The report provides an overview of how STORs are used across different Member States in the context of the detection and investigation of market abuse, and how their use has

Recently, the FCA published Market Watch 73 which covered the regulator’s market abuse peer review into firms that offer contracts for difference (CfDs) and spread bets. The Market Watch followed the FCA’s earlier Dear CEO letter which was published last December which highlighted the FCA’s expectations of firms offering CfDs (including in relation

On 20 March 2023, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a letter, addressed to the European Parliament and Council, raising concerns over proposed changes to the insider list regime in the Market Abuse Regulation.

The proposed changes, put forward by the European Commission (Commission) in December 2022 as