Market abuse
Market Abuse, defined in section 118 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and in the Market Abuse Directive, consists primarily of Insider Information 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.
See also
Market Abuse Directive (MAD)
Information on MAD is 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 Moneymadeclear website provides useful impartial information to consumers
Moneymadeclear
Market abuse factsheet [PDF]
"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


