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Organised crime active in equity markets according to the FCA

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The regulator draws attention to the risks with the release of this guidance, coinciding with arrests in London.

Trading by organised crime groups (OCGs), alongside ways for firms to mitigate the risk of inadvertently facilitating it, is the focus of the FCA’s Market Watch 77.

The regulator suggests somewhat surprisingly, that trading by members of OCGs accounts for a significant proportion of the overall volume of suspicious trading

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