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What does Financial crime mean? In legal practice, financial crime means criminal conduct involving money, financial services or financial markets. In the UK, section 1H(3) of the financial services and markets act 2000 defines it as any criminal conduct relating to money or to financial services or markets, including offences involving fraud or dishonesty, misconduct in or misuse of information relating to a financial market, and handling the proceeds of crime. UK regulators (FCA, PRA) construe this broadly. Typical offences include: - fraud and dishonesty offences; market abuse (insider dealing, manipulation) - money laundering and terrorist financing; dealing with the proceeds of crime - bribery and...

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UK financial services criminal and regulatory offences: insider dealing and market abuse, FSA 2012 and FSMA 2000 (including financial promotions and CIS), statutory defences, FCA guidance and sentencing

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This Practice Note is archived and is not being maintained. For details of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) powers to bring prosecutions in financial services, refer to Practice Note: FCA prosecution of criminal offences—essentials. insider dealing and market abuse constitute financial crime, arising from misconduct within a market or the misuse of market-related information. A civil and regulatory framework aimed at detecting, deterring, or preventing financial crime across the regulated sector operates under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000) and the onshored UK Market Abuse Regulation (which implements Retained Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (OJ L 173/1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (EU Market Abuse Regulation) (which applies in the UK as of IP completion day)). This regime sits alongside the criminal offences of insider dealing and market abuse, which sanction improper market conduct and behaviours that undermine the integrity of the UK’s financial system...

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