Season 10, Episode 6: Insider dealing lists: lessons from a conviction
Listen now
Description
In Episode 6 of Season 10, Helen Parry, senior Regulatory Intelligence Expert speaks to Rachel Wolcott, senior editor about the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) recent success in securing an insider dealing conviction. The FCA's enforcement co-heads—Therese Chambers and Steve Smart --have used this conviction to reassert the regulator's intention to get tough on insider dealing. A previous enforcement head said the same thing in 2015. Rachel asks Helen what is different this time. Helen explains some of the issues the recent conviction raises about insider dealing list management and the loopholes those convicted of market abuse or insider dealing think they are taking advantage of when trading illegally. For example, Mohammed Zina, whom the FCA convicted this month, argued he was not insider dealing, because he was not on an insider list. That argument did not stand up in court and Helen offers listeners examples of other similar failed defence arguments. Helen and Rachel talk through two recent FCA Market Watch newsletters related to market abuse and insider dealing and touch on some updates to the UK's criminal insider dealing regime. Links Helen on the Zina/Goldman case: COLUMN: Ex-Goldman Sachs conflicts resolution group analyst convicted of insider dealing http://go-ri.tr.com/b4UU6K Helen on Insider dealing and organised crime: COLUMN: More connections emerge between criminal insider dealing cases in courts in the UK, US and France ( January 2020) http://go-ri.tr.com/Oc83Bs COLUMN: Insider dealing appeal throws more light on international networks of convicted day trader http://go-ri.tr.com/Q3Sjuh Rex vs Mohammed Zina sentencing remarks: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/R- v-Zina.pdf EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM TO THE INSIDER DEALING (SECURITIES AND REGULATED MARKETS) ORDER 2023 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/582/pdfs/uksiem_20230582_en_001.pdf Market Watch 76, flying and printing https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/newsletters/market-watch-76 Market Watch 77, insider dealing by organized criminal groups: https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/newsletters/market-watch-77 Compliance Clarified Series 9, Episode 1: UK Financial Conduct Authority's enforcement arm: "all bases covered"or "highly unsatisfactory"?: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/series-9-episode-1-uk-financial-conduct-authoritys/id1548510826?i=1000629486982 Contact us [email protected] [email protected] More information about Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/regulatory-intelligence Compliance Clarified is a podcast from Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence. Listen to wide-ranging, insightful discussions on all things compliance for financial services firms. We delve into the hot topics of the day, the challenges faced and offer up practical ideas for emerging good practice. We de-mystify regulation and explore the art, as well as the science, of the ever-expanding role of the compliance officer.  Enforcements, digital transformation, regulatory change, governance, culture, conduct risk – anything and everything impacting the compliance function is up for discussion.
More Episodes
Today we’re joined by Klaus Moosmayer, Chief Ethics, Risk and Compliance Officer for Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant. Klaus has had a distinguished career. He joined Novartis in 2018 after serving 18 years at Siemens where he was Chief Compliance Officer. He began his career as a lawyer...
Published 05/30/24
In the second episode of Season 11 of Compliance Clarified, Todd Ehret, senior regulatory intelligence expert, is joined by Jacob Denman for a wide-ranging discussion on the growing trend of elder financial exploitation. Jacob Denman is with Thomson Reuters Risk and Fraud Solutions and...
Published 05/23/24