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Market Abuse

To report market abuse call the Market Abuse Helpline.

Telephone: 020 7066 4900

Email:
Market abuse team

Related external links

Market Abuse, defined in section 118 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and in the Market Abuse Directive, consists primarily of Insider Dealing and Market Manipulation. The Market Abuse Directive provides an EU wide market abuse regime aimed at reducing the incidence of market abuse.

In this section

Market conduct
Information about standards of market conduct, which users of the UK markets must follow.

Suspicious transaction reporting
Reporting forms and further information on suspicious transaction reporting to the FSA.

Market abuse library 
Lists all FSA documents relevant to market abuse.

Newsletter

The MarketWatch newsletters give a periodical update on the market conduct issues that we are looking at.

View the latest issue [PDF]

There is also a full list of all the Marketwatch Newsletters we have published to date.

View full list by date/edition

View A-Z summary index

See also

Market Abuse Directive (MAD) [PDF]
Information on MAD is also available in the International section of the website.

Market Conduct Sourcebook (MAR) 
See the FSA Handbook for our rules and guidance regarding Market Conduct.

Information on Transaction Reporting, ARMs and our TRS system can be found on our Transaction Reporting pages

Consumer information

Our consumer webpages provide useful information about how we regulated firms and individuals and protect your money.

Market abuse factsheet [PDF]

Takeover Panel:
Cold-shouldering

Takeover Panel: Cold-shouldering [PDF]
On 14 July 2010, the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (POTAM) published a statement on their website regarding the ‘cold-shouldering’ of Brian Myerson, Brian Padgett and Daniel Posen.


Hector Sants

"It is incumbent on the senior management of firms to guard against the risk that their staff will commit, or facilitate, market abuse and I would hope that our common desire to promote the UK as an efficient, orderly and fair market will ensure they do so."

Hector Sants, CEO - FSA