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Corruption and Fraud in Financial Markets

  • ITEM SKU
    7890
  • CPE Hours
    24
  • Full Course Price
    $139.50
Exam Questions: 120
Course Level: Intermediate
Pages: 462 | Content: 440, Supplemental: 22
NASBA Area of Study: Auditing
Not Acceptable for: Enrolled Agents
Version: 7890A

This course will give you an understanding of potential issues surrounding all types of fraud, misconduct, price/volume manipulation and other forms of malpractice to help prevent your company from falling victim to unethical practices. It will cover detection, prevention, and regulation of corruption and fraud within different financial markets. You'll find details on the many practices that bring potentially devastating consequences, including insider trading, bribery, false disclosure, frontrunning, options backdating, and improper execution or broker-agency relationships. PLEASE NOTE: Course material is a component of #7905, #7910 and #7915; therefore, we recommend that you should not take this course with courses #7905, #7910 or #7915 in the same CPE reporting period. This course is written in British English so some of the spelling and terms reflect the dialect. Not accepted for Enrolled Agents. All course material provided. Prerequisites: Understanding of financial market terms/concepts and advanced mathematical calculations. Course level: Intermediate.

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Table of Contents
  • WHAT ARE MANIPULATION AND FRAUD AND WHY DO THEY MATTER?
  • Introduction
  • Overview of Market Manipulation
  • Taxonomy of Financial Market Misconduct
  • Financial Misconduct and Market-Based Penalties
  • Insider Trading and Market Manipulation
  • Financial Fraud and Reputational Capital
  • HOW AND WHERE DOES MISCONDUCT OCCUR?
  • Manipulative and Collusive Practices in FX Markets
  • Fraud and Manipulation within Cryptocurrency Markets
  • The Integrity of Closing Prices
  • A Trader's Perspective on Market Abuse Regulations
  • WHO ARE THESE SCOUNDRELS?
  • Misconduct in Banking: Governance and the Board of Directors
  • Misconduct and Fraud by Investment Managers
  • Options Backdating and Shareholders
  • The Strategic Behavior of Underwriters in Valuing IPOs
  • Governance and Financial Services Outsourcing: Managing Misconduct and Third-Party Risks
  • DETECTION AND SURVEILLANCE OF FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT
  • Identifying Security Market Manipulation
  • The Analytics of Financial Market Misconduct
Objectives
  • To recall the negative career consequences to managers that engage in market manipulation and financial fraud
  • To identify various forms of market manipulation
  • To recall various schemes and characteristics associated with financial market misconduct
  • To identify the various financial regulations used in the U.S. to combat corporate misconduct
  • To recall the consequences of strict enforcement of laws aimed at preventing financial market abuse
  • To recall the definition of reputational capital
  • To identify the characteristics and impact of the Forex scandal
  • To identify the characteristics of cryptocurrencies
  • To recall the types of stocks that are most prone to portfolio pumping techniques
  • To identify the characteristics of, and potential reasons for, wash trades
  • To recall the three main U.S. banking supervisory authorities
  • To identify the characteristics that have a positive relation to fraud
  • To identify the types of corporate misbehavior also associated with the practice of option grant backdating
  • To identify the most widely used method for valuing firms
  • To recall the reasons given for outsourcing by the respondents of the author's survey of financial institutions
  • To recall the various ways in which a securities market might be manipulated
  • To recall widely used supervised learning techniques for fraud detection

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