Cross‐Border Insider Trading

Abstract

Some 40 years have now passed since the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) began seriously to attack the problem of insider trading in its seminal Cady, Roberts decision. Since then, a complex pattern of regulation has evolved, largely through a common law process of judicial interpretation of the open‐ended anti‐fraud provision of the federal securities laws, Rule 10b‐5. While many interpretative questions still remain open, US law in this area broadly prohibits trading based on material non‐public information when:

Citation

Langevoort, D.C. (2001), "Cross‐Border Insider Trading", Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 254-263. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb025991