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Bruselas fija sanciones penales por la manipulación de los mercados
La UE sube las multas y pena de prisión para la información privilegiada
Ignacio Fariza Bruselas 15 ABR 2014 - 00:00 CET
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Brussels sets criminal penalties for market manipulation
The EU goes fines and imprisonment for insider trading
Ignacio Fariza Brussels 15 ABR 2014 - 00:00 CET
Adulteration of financial markets may kill their leaders in prison. The European Council on Monday gave its approval to a regulation that will strengthen mechanisms for community action against market manipulation , raise fines and impose prison sentences on those guilty of market abuse or insider trading . The legislation , which comes into force in June, also unifies the definitions of market abuse offense in all Member States and advocates that the law enforcement authorities are prepared Veintiocho enough to deal with a type of offense that platforms electronic trading has become more complex in recent years .
In particular , the countries of the European Union (EU ) will have a common framework of criminal sanctions including penalties of at least four years' imprisonment for those responsible for manipulating a market or benchmark ( such as Libor or Euribor) or to undertake insider trading and up to two years in prison for his improper disclosure information. In terms of economic sanctions , Brussels envisages fines up to three times the profit made or fraud of at least 15% of the turnover of the companies accused of manipulating the normal functioning of the market . The regulation, however, leaves the door open to the Member States, to strengthen their urging cooperation mechanisms regulating - establish even stricter sanctions and further legislate on offenses committed on its territory or by one of its nationals.
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Despite the apparent cogency of harsher penalties and fines for damage to the integrity of financial markets yesterday approved the Community Executive resigned in September to strict regulation to strengthen control of the two main benchmarks for interbank loans British - Libor and Euribor - European before a possible clash with Downing Street. According to the proposal at that time wrote the European Commission, the monitoring of these two indices of vital importance to the financial sector and the real economy (among other things , set the price of mortgages ) shall be for the supervisors countries which they are based -United Kingdom and Belgium , which should act collegially with regulators from other Member States, but the EU has the capacity to direct supervision of the index. In short, a conflict that has cost tens of billions of euros to European households is settled with substantial fines and penalties increased capacity but also a regulation that planting is delayed and doubts about its actual margin of maneuver.
It is a response to manipulation suffered Euribor and Libor
Both certified yesterday as the EU executive proposed legislation born September mainly in response to the most blatant manipulation benchmarks in Europe : the adulteration of Libor and Euribor by the Swiss bank UBS and Britain's Barclays. Regulators in the U.S., UK and Switzerland both entities imposed a fine of 1,250 euros and 300 million respectively to be satisfied that they had agreed the fluctuation of both indices to their advantage.
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