Insider dealing and market manipulation: a comparative analysis of regulatory enforcement in the United Kingdom and United States

Abstract

This purpose of this research is to examine the means adopted by the United States and the United Kingdom in combating the main two types of fraud that interfere with financial market trading. These are namely insider dealing or insider trading depending on the jurisdiction that is examined and market manipulation. Both these jurisdictions are examined in relation to the ways each uses differing methods of regulatory enforcement mechanisms to control these types of market fraud.