On 31 October 2023, the FCA published Market Watch 75.
In this edition of Market Watch, the FCA shares its observations about market soundings since it published Market Watch 51 and 58. It also reminds firms of the arrangements made by the UK Market Abuse Regulation’s market soundings regime, which provides formalised arrangements for
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
On 26 May 2023, there was published on the legislation.gov.uk website, The Insider Dealing (Securities and Regulated Markets) Order 2023.
This Order updates Schedule 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993 (CJA), bringing securities and markets on which an offence can be committed in the CJA broadly in line with the Market
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 26 April 2023, the FCA published Market Watch 73. In this Market Watch, the FCA discusses the observations and findings from its recent market abuse peer review into firms that offer Contracts for Difference (CFDs) and spread bets, both of which are particularly vulnerable to being used for insider dealing due
On 17 April 2023, HM Treasury published a draft of the Insider Dealing (Securities and Regulated Markets) Order 2023, (the draft statutory instrument (SII)), along with a draft explanatory memorandum.
The SI updates Schedule 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993 (CJA) bringing the securities and markets on which
On 24 March 2023, HM Treasury and the FCA issued a statement providing an update on the criminal market abuse regime (the regime). In the Economic Crime Plan 2019-22, the government and FCA committed to jointly reviewing the regime within the wider context of the Future Regulatory Framework (FRF) Review. The statement
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