Market Abuse

    News on regulatory investigations, enforcement actions, and technologies addressing practices like insider trading, market manipulation, and spoofing.

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    High Frequency Trading: Lessons for Asia

    By Samuel Riding | 03/12/2015

    US trader and HFT whistleblower Haim Bodek raises red flags for Asian brokers and regulators.

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    Ensuring Fast, Fair Trading in Asia

    By Samuel Riding | 03/12/2015

    Reflecting on the Asian impact of rising fears, and prosecutions, of spoofing by high-frequency traders.

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    Trading or Spoofing? A Legal Perspective from Singapore

    By Samuel Riding | 03/12/2015

    WongPartnership discusses whether Singapore’s existing regulatory framework is sufficient to distinguish valid trading and spoofing.

    AI Risk & Governance

    Entering the Regtech Era

    By Samuel Riding | 30/11/2015

    In a new research report three Asia Pacific-based academics offer answers to the vexing question of how to regulate financial technology.

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    Citic Securities, Guosen Probed by CSRC

    By Samuel Riding | 27/11/2015

    Securities regulator looking into alleged violations of securities rules at two of China’s top three brokers.

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    CSRC to Begin Mutual Fund Investigation

    By Samuel Riding | 17/11/2015

    China’s securities regulator probe could include brokerages and will involve extensive audits of mutual funds.

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    Spoofing Conviction Creates Uncertainty

    By Peter Guy | 09/11/2015

    Last week’s successful US conviction creates more ambiguity in electronic trading and global markets.

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    Singapore Investigates Alleged Derivatives Spoofing

    By Samuel Riding | 09/11/2015

    SGX investigation prompted by large number of complaints and amid increased scrutiny of spoof trading.

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    SGX Extends Privy List Requirements

    By Samuel Riding | 04/11/2015

    Rule comes into effect on December 1; exchange to no longer require private notification of significant transactions

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    China Funds, Banks Hit as Market Probe Intensifies

    By Samuel Riding | 03/11/2015

    Authorities extend investigations with detention of hedge fund manager, questioning of Agricultural Bank president

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