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A comparison of re-proposed SEC Rule 9j-1 and the UK/EU Market Abuse Regulation
Despite industry criticism of the Rule 9j-1 originally proposed in 2010, the SEC recently re-proposed Rule 9j-1 with even further reach in antifraud, anti-manipulation liabilities for security-based swaps. In particular, the re-proposal lowers the standard of mental state requirement for insider trading liabilities, adds a new prohibition on acts and attempted acts of price manipulation, and seeks to apply similar expanded violations to assets underlying or related to the security-based swap. Compared to the re-proposed Rule 9j-1, the UK/EU Market Abuse Regulation has a different scope and is not specifically designed to apply to swaps and derivatives, but contains prohibitions in the same categories as those under the re-proposed Rule 9j-1.
1 APR 2022
