This Overview provides a guide to the Financial Services content within the Market abuse and stabilisation subtopic, with links to the appropriate materials.
Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (OJ L 173, 12.6.2014, p. 1) (the EU Market Abuse Regulation) establishes a common regulatory framework on market abuse as well as measures to prevent market abuse to ensure the integrity of the EU financial markets and enhance investor protection and confidence in those markets.
Retained Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (the UK Market Abuse Regulation) applies in the UK as of IP completion day (30 December 2020).
According to recital 7 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation and UK Market Abuse Regulation, market abuse is 'a concept that encompasses unlawful behaviour in the financial markets'. For the purposes of the Market Abuse Regulation, this should be understood as comprising:
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