In order for the financial markets to operate fairly, efficiently and to be transparent, all participants have to behave in a way that doesn’t obscure or influence the value of markets in a way that is ‘false’, by misusing information they have been given or by fraud.

The Market Abuse regime is still fairly new but there have been several high profile cases of abuse already. This course will provide the regulatory basics of insider dealing, market manipulation and the expected internal controls.

The aim of the course is to provide attendees with a better awareness of insider dealing, market manipulation and misleading statements, and why breaking the rules in these ways is not victimless.

The course will be illustrated with a number of recent case studies for review and discussion and changes to regulation over the past decade will be brought out to show how the market continues to try to ‘manage’ market abuse as a major area of risk and the basic internal controls all Firms should have in place.