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FCA highlights technology implementation as weak point in market surveillance

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Market Watch 79 includes specific examples of failures and the results of a review of automated surveillance model testing.

In this most recent newsletter the FCA is also asking firms to improve the implementation, testing and oversight of their technical systems used for market abuse surveillance.

The regulator indicates that in the last few years it has observed various problems with surveillance systems and specifically with the alerts that