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Monitoring for Disruptive Trading and Adverse Price Impact

By: Christopher Waitz, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus   The prohibition against disruptive trading practices and market manipulation is a foundational element for most regulatory and self-regulatory regimes globally. Certain abusive behaviors, such as Spoofing or Marking the Close (also known as “Banging the Close”), receive the most attention from regulators and compliance teams. However, […]

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National Futures Association Anti-Fraud Rule 2-51 for Digital Assets

By: Mike Castiglione, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets, Eventus   The National Futures Association (NFA) in March 2023 proposed a new rule to expand its anti-fraud, trade monitoring, and supervision requirements on all members that engage in digital asset commodities activities, in both derivative and spot markets. This rule goes into effect on May

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CFTC Priorities: What Trading Firms Need to Know

Originally published by Markets Media   Compliance in Focus is a content series on regulatory topics for financial markets and challenges compliance officers face in addressing surveillance and monitoring. Compliance in Focus is produced in collaboration with Eventus. One year ago, the newly sworn-in chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Rostin Behnam, shared his vision and

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Conduct and Control: Centralizing Trade Monitoring to Combat Market Misconduct

By: David Griffiths, Director of Regulatory Affairs, APAC, Eventus   White Paper Insights This white paper examines how regulators approach market disruption in the digital era, and how institutions are responding. Discover how institutions are breaking down boundaries in trade compliance, and what it means for operational efficiency.   Download the white paper here:

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AML in 2023: The Convergence of AML and Trade Surveillance

Originally published by Markets Media   Compliance in Focus is a content series on regulatory topics for financial markets and challenges compliance officers face in addressing surveillance and monitoring. Compliance in Focus is produced in collaboration with Eventus. As seen in 2022 and continuing this year, the pace of market change financial institutions must endure is increasing. New

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UK’s Financial Regulator Gives AML Application Guidance

By: Mike Castiglione, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets, Eventus   Only 15 percent of cryptoasset applicants have gained approval under the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) anti-money laundering (AML) and countering-terrorist finance regime, according to a recent FCA notice. To assist applicants, the FCA offers guidelines about what constitutes good and bad applications to

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UK Cryptoasset Policy Paper Emphasizes Market Abuse Rules

By: Mike Castiglione, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets, Eventus   The UK Treasury (HMT) published a consultation paper on February 1, 2023 to outline its thinking about expanding crypto regulations, such as applying elements of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) that covers other asset classes and to give crypto trading venues monitoring responsibilities. The

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Reimagining AML – Taking a Signals-Based Approach

Anti-money laundering (AML) is a mature industry with many aspects and choices about how best to satisfy regulatory requirements– from pre-onboarding through effective monitoring to reporting and off-boarding in order to help financial institutions stop financial crime.  AML is fairly procedural with a high degree of information gathering, processing, and analysis. Too often, AML’s pain-points

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