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FCA’s stark warning: Insider traders will be caught during Covid-19 crisis

Mark Steward, the Financial Conduct Authority’s director of enforcement and market oversight, has said that the regulator is bracing for an uptick in market abuse cases in the coming months.

Monday, 4 May 2020 at 13:37

FCA’s stark warning: Insider traders will be caught during Covid-19 crisis
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The City’s top market watchdog has warned insider traders that it will catch them, even during the coronavirus outbreak. 

Mark Steward, the Financial Conduct Authority’s executive director of enforcement and market oversight, told Financial News that the regulator was bracing for an uptick in market abuse cases in the coming months.