Market abuse
Ferc targets power market gaming with JP Morgan fine
Record $410 million settlement demonstrates zero-tolerance approach towards exploitation of market design flaws
Firms seen upping surveillance and self-reporting after Ferc fines
Ferc penalties against Barclays and other banks expected to bolster compliance with market manipulation rules
Uneconomic trading, market manipulation and baseball
Regulators, including the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, are aggressively targeting uneconomic trading in a crackdown on potential market manipulation. Such moves have striking parallels in the history of baseball - some of which might prove…
White paper: Emerging themes 2013: A clean sweep for financial regulation?
An incessant torrent of regulation, divergent approaches by different regulators and the practical difficulty of ensuring compliance by employees spread across different locations have created major challenges for senior management in the financial…
High-frequency trading improves market quality, study finds
Study disproves commonly held negative perceptions of HFT
Cole to leave UK FSA
Managing director's departure comes before regulatory overhaul
Record fine for fraudulent CEO 'not enough', says expert
FSA fine for ex-JC FLowers chief executive 'does not show credible deterrence'
Near-record fines indicate FSA's harsh approach to market abuse
Latest fines include second-highest individual market abuse penalty so far
Record HSBC fine shows FSA getting tough on retail conduct
Experts believe multi-million-pound fine issued to HSBC to be continuation of FSA focus on banks' retail failings
Acer to issue guidelines to clarify Remit definition problems, says Pototschnig
The head of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators says new non-binding guidance will appear shortly after the Remit regulation is published in the EU's official journal
Energy Risk Europe: Remit language too loose, say panellists
Weaknesses exist in the language of new rules meant to prevent use of insider information and other forms of market abuse in the wholesale energy sector
Criminal minds and increased surveillance
All you survey
UK fines increase as FSA ditches soft approach
No more Mr Nice Guy
FSA denies CDO insider-trading crackdown
Regulator says investigations into certain market groups do not represent a CDO insider-trading initiative
SocGen studies hedge fund fraud to reduce risk
French bank completes statistical study on statistical properties of fraudulent funds
FSA defends mobile-taping proposals, continues plans to enforce recording
UK regulator denies planned regulation is unenforceable or prohibitively expensive
Market abuse and insider trading still seen as victimless crimes
Change of mentality needed to confront rise in insider trading says Baker Platt director
FSA fines Credit Suisse and two others £4.2m for transaction reporting failures
Inadequate reporting systems and controls to prevent market abuse leads to £4.2m fines for three London firms.