Here. Covers:
- Shareholding disclosures
- Powers of significant shareholders
- Applicability of the Takeover Code
- Insider dealing and market abuse.
10 December 2012
FSA speech on “Challenging the culture of market behaviour”
4 December 2012 speech by Jamie Symington, Head of Wholesale Enforcement at the Financial Services Authority; covers:
- The FSA’s policy of “credible deterrence:
- Rising number of STRs;
- SMARTS software to improve surveillance and detection of market abuse;
- Build-out of enforcement capability;
- Decline in suspicious activity pre-announcement of takeovers, to 20% in 2011;
- Market abuse successes;
- An overview of the Einhorn / Greenlight Capital case;
- Thematic and educational work; and
- The future approach of the FCA.
See also: Einhorn / Greenlight Capital posts.
29 November 2012
“Controlled-liability theory” and the SAC insider trading case
The NYT Dealbook’s overview of the SAC / Martoma insider dealing case explains controlled-liability theory:
“…the S.E.C.’s warning is the boldest regulatory shot yet across SAC’s bow. The commission filed a parallel civil suit last week alongside the Justice Department’s criminal charges that named Mr. Martoma and CR Intrinsic, the SAC unit that employed Mr. Martoma, as defendants.
A person briefed on the investigation said that an additional action against SAC, or even Mr. Cohen, could involve accusations of fraud based on the so-called controlled-liability theory, meaning that it was in “control” of Mr. Martoma when he engaged in insider trading.”
See also: Expert network firms
28 November 2012
“Expert network firms”: good background from the NYT
Andrew Ross Sorkin on hedge funds and the perils of expert network firms, as exemplified by ongoing the SAC / Martoma insider case.
15 November 2012
Girlfriends of insider dealer acquitted of insider dealing
Jessica Mang and Christina Weckwerth were, unknown to each other, the girlfriends of Thomas Ammann. Today they were found not guilty of insider dealing. Mr Ammann was found guilty of two counts of insider dealing and two counts of encouraging insider dealing. The tone of the FSA’s press release suggests disappointment at the acquittal of the girfriends:
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1 October 2012
“Two senior city professionals at leading city institutions” arrested in “the FSA’s largest ever operation against insider dealing”
From the Financial Services Authority this morning:
“In the first operation carried out jointly between the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), 16 addresses have been searched this morning in London, the South East and Oxfordshire in the FSA’s largest ever operation against insider dealing.
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