See here for an article on Bloomberg about the ongoing case of Fabiana Abdel-Malek, a former compliance officer at UBS AG, and Walid Choucair a day trader. It is alleged…

Last week, the UK's Upper Tribunal rejected an appeal lodged by Linear Investments against a fine of £409,300 levied against them by the UK's FCA  last October (see here). The…

ACM, the National Regulatory Authority of the Netherlands, has  announced that they have carried out a dawn raid on a company within the country, as part of an investigation into…

Last Friday, ACER issued this report on the application of the REMIT market manipulation prohibition (Article 5) in relation to layering and spoofing. This is the third such "example market…

Yesterday the Bundesnetzagentur, Germany's National Regulatory Authority, announced that Uniper Global Commodities SE has been fined €150,000 for breaches of REMIT relating to market manipulation. In addition, two traders have…

There are just under 3 weeks to go until the open anti abuse forum for energy and commodities takes place in London on the 11th March 2019. This discussion forum…

Earlier this week, Julia Hoggett, Director of Market Oversight at the FCA, made a speech at the AFME Implementation of the Market Abuse Regulation in the UK event. It can be…

Yesterday the Danish Utility Regulator announced that Neas Energy A/S has accepted a fine of 150,000 DKK (approximately 20,000 euros) and 3,000 DKK (approximately 400 euros) disgorgement for capacity hoarding on…

The end of 2018 and first few days of 2019 have seen some anti abuse developments in the US, following the failed case highlighted in this post. The case of…