Last year saw a surge in markets abuse fines and high profile cases of deceptive trading particularly from large investment banks. “As financial markets have become increasingly complex, so have the ...
HM Treasury published on 15 May 2025 the legal framework which will govern the establishment and operation of the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES), a new type of ...
The UK Financial Conduct Authority recently issued the PISCES Sourcebook, finalizing the regulatory regime for this new type of private capital market. On 10 June 2025, the UK Financial Conduct ...
In 2020, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay over $920 million for creating fake orders to ostensibly change the prices of securities. In 2022, eight financial influencers used their social media following ...
In the analog days of trading, regulators were concerned with finding instances of the good old-fashioned pump and dump, insider trading, or market timing schemes. But digital transformation has ...
Wash trading is likely the simplest of market manipulation schemes. However, it lays the fundamentals for many other schemes, and even its most basic form has proven incredibly effective in ...
Sometimes you just want a stock to be above a certain price. Maybe it’s to secure a performance bonus, avoid being delisted, prevent margin loans that would trigger or perhaps you are trying to ...