ob体育 has today released its latest report on market integrity for the period 1 July 2016 to 31 December 2016.
The report covers ob体育's work helping to ensure Australia鈥檚 financial markets operate fairly and efficiently.
Key outcomes during the six-month period include:
The report looks at ob体育鈥檚 reviews of market cleanliness, handling of confidential information and conflicts of interest, and the ASX equity market outage. It also looks at some of our key activities over the last six months in areas such as insider trading (贬辞肠丑迟颈别蹿听础骋) and the management of wholesale spot foreign exchange businesses (CBA and NAB).
ob体育 Commissioner Cathie Armour said, 鈥榦b体育 is focused on protecting the integrity of Australia鈥檚 financial markets, so that companies and investors can participate with confidence. We achieve this by setting standards and educating stakeholders, pursuing behavioural change and taking enforcement action to deter market misconduct.鈥�
Ongoing priorities and areas of focus for ob体育鈥檚 market integrity work in 2017 include:
- firm culture and conduct risk
- confidential information and conflicts of interest
- technology risk and cyber resilience, and
- market innovation.