Market Manipulation and Insider Trading

Ester Herlin-Karnell & Nicholas Ryder
Release date:7 February 2019
Language:English
Pages:168
ISBN:9781509903078
Publisher:Hart Publishing
Price:€ 82,60

The European Union regime for fighting market manipulation and insider trading – commonly referred to as market abuse – was significantly reshuffled in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008 and new legal instruments to fight market abuse were eventually adopted in 2014.

In this monograph the authors identify the association between the financial crisis and market abuse, critically consider the legislative, policy and enforcement responses in the European Union, and contrast them with the approaches adopted by the United States of America and the United Kingdom respectively. The aftermath of the financial crisis, ongoing security concerns and increased legislation and policy responses to the fight against irregularities and market failures demonstrate that we need to understand, in context, the regulatory responses taken in this area. Specifically, the book investigates how the regulatory responses have changed over time since the start of the financial crisis.

Market Manipulation and Insider Trading places the fight against market abuse in the broader framework of the fight against white collar crime and also considers some associated questions in order to better understand the contemporary market abuse regime.


Ester Herlin-Karnell

Ester Herlin-Karnell is Professor in EU law and University Research Chair of EU Constitutional Law and Justice and the Director of the VU Centre for European Legal Studies at the Free University of Amsterdam.


Nicholas Ryder

Prof. Nocholas Ryder has been a Professor of Financial Crime at the University of the West of England, Bristol since 2013. He previously taught at the University of Glamorgan where he was awarded a Ph.D. His research has been commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), LexisNexis Risk Solutions, the City of London Police Force, ICT Wilmington Risk & Compliance, the France Telecom Group and the European Social Fund. Between 2015 and 2018, he was the Co-I for the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats. His main research interests are in financial crime (especially money laundering, market manipulation and terrorism financing).