Market Abuse Regulation Puts Sales Teams In Unfamiliar Territory

Market Abuse Regulation Puts Sales Teams In Unfamiliar Territory by Peter C. Trauber, FactSet

In recent months the attention of European financial markets has turned to fulfilling the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), which comes into effect on July 3, 2016. MAR was overshadowed in 2015 by the discussion of MiFID II legislation but has since taken top-billing in the minds of compliance officers after the MiFID II delay  was announced.

What is Market Abuse Regulation?

MAR will apply market monitoring and surveillance obligations to all organized trading, but today we focus on a section that is of particular concern to both equity and fixed income currencies and commodities sales teams across Europe. Articles 3(1)(24)(i) and (ii) of...