Market Conduct Regulation

Financial regulation can usefully be bifurcated into prudential and business conduct dimensions. The former concentrates on standards, guidelines and recommendations of best practice on capital adequacy, liquidity and solvency risk and procedures for the orderly winding down of regulated financial institutions. Market conduct regulation, on the other hand, refers to the operation of the market. Regulators are increasingly moving towards expansive definitions of what consitutes market integrity. This series explores the consequences of this move. It evaluates market conduct regulatory performance across three main areas - structure (or mandate), internal processes and managerial discretion - and five dimensions Compliance, Ethics, Deterrernce, Accountability and Risk (CEDAR).

IOSCO Creates Board Level Task Force on Financial Market Benchmarks

The International Organization of Securities Commissions has constituted a Board Level Task Force on Financial Market Benchmarks to identify relevant benchmark-related policy issues and develop global policy guidance and principles for benchmark-related activities of particular relevance to market r
Originally Published: 
Friday, September 14, 2012

Financial Services Authority publishes guidance consultation to help firms provide redress to victims of PPI mis-selling

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published proposed guidance for firms that sold payment protection insurance (PPI) and are beginning to contact customers who may have been mis-sold a policy but have yet to complain.
Originally Published: 
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

ASIC Consults on Requirement to Manage Conflicts of Interest in Litigation Schemes and Proof of Debt Schemes

ASIC has released a consultation paper outlining its proposals on how it believes funders, insolvency practitioners and lawyers can satisfy the new obligation to have adequate arrangements for managing conflicts of interest that may arise in relation to a litigation scheme or a proof of debt scheme.
Originally Published: 
Friday, August 17, 2012

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