Comment: UK financial regulator's insider-trading appeal win doesn't change the big picture
By Martin Coyle ( December 18, 2020, 17:04 GMT | Comment) -- The failure of a former UBS compliance officer and her friend to overturn their insider-trading convictions is a modest comfort to the UK's financial regulator over its efforts to stamp out market manipulation. It's a solid win in an area where the Financial Conduct Authority has both a patchy record and a enormous hill to climb to mount an effective deterrence to insider traders.The failure of a former UBS compliance officer and her friend to overturn their insider-trading convictions is a modest comfort to the UK's financial regulator over its efforts to stamp out market manipulation....
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