About Course
This course offers a practical and engaging introduction to market abuse regulation, designed for financial professionals who want to understand how market abuse is identified, reported, and sanctioned in practice, without getting lost in legal technicalities.
Rather than focusing on the letter of the law, the course brings the regulation to life through real enforcement cases, ESMA publications, and supervisory insights that are not typically available in standard compliance training. You will come away with a genuine understanding of how regulators think and what they look for.
The course covers the core concepts of market manipulation and insider dealing under the EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR),the mechanics of reporting suspicious transactions and orders (STORs),and a review of actual regulatory cases involving fines and sanctions imposed across the EU. You will also examine enforcement statistics and STOR trends across EU member states, giving you a data-driven picture of where supervisory focus currently sits.
A dedicated section explores the growing regulatory risk around investment recommendations shared on social media, an increasingly scrutinised area that many compliance professionals are underprepared for.
Finally, the course includes insights drawn from supervisory reviews rarely shared publicly, giving participants a behind-the-scenes perspective on how national competent authorities, including CySEC, approach market abuse oversight.
This online market abuse training counts towards your CySEC CPD requirements for Basic, Advanced, and AML certificate holders, and is delivered by a CFA charterholder with direct regulatory and compliance experience.
This course is ideal for:
- Compliance officers and surveillance professionals at CySEC-regulated investment firms
- Traders, portfolio managers, and relationship managers subject to MAR obligations
- MLROs and AML officers seeking broader regulatory awareness
- Professionals completing their CySEC Basic, Advanced, or AML CPD obligations
- EU financial professionals seeking practical market abuse compliance training
