Tailored versions of our market abuse eLearning course can be made for different sectors.

This includes:

• Asset Management
• Fintech
• Investment Banking
• Law Firms
• Trading Platforms for:
  • Financial Instruments
  • Emissions Allowances
• Stockbroking
• Wholesale Banking

Market Abuse training from CityLearning is built around a set of learning objectives to ensure your staff are fully trained in treating customers well.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Module 1: Introduction

• define market abuse.
• describe the implications of market abuse.

Module 2: Legal Background

• outline the main legislation associated with market abuse.
• summarise the key provisions of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).
• specify which markets and trading platforms the MAR applies to.
• explain the role of the regulator, i.e. the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) or UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), with respect to market abuse.
• identify the possible penalties for market abuse.

Module 3: Market Abuse Behaviour 1

• define insider dealing, improper disclosure, misuse of information and manipulating transactions.
• provide examples of the above behaviours

Module 4: Market Abuse Behaviour 2

• define manipulating devices, improper dissemination and misleading behaviour.
• give examples of each of the above behaviours.
• describe market abuse practices facilitated by high-frequency trading.

Module 5: Roles and Responsibilities

• list the rules relating to disclosure.
• recognise your duty to report suspicions of market abuse.
• explain how to identify and report suspicious transactions.

This market abuse training course covers your obligations under the legislation regulating market abuse, primarily the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). It explains what the main market abuse behaviours are and what they look like and teaches your staff what to do if they spot these behaviours.

The market abuse behaviours covered include:

• Insider Dealing
• Improper Disclosure
• Manipulating Transactions
• Manipulating Devices
• Improper Dissemination
• Distortion and Misleading Behaviour

Market Abuse ends in a 15-question course test. Learners must answer at least 12/15 questions correctly to pass the course. Their score will be automatically saved in CityLearning’s Learning Management System (LMS) CityREPORTs, so that compliance with handling market abuse training requirements can easily be proven.  

Rigorous Testing: Spot questions are used throughout the course to increase user engagement with the learning material. These questions either probe to expand on a learner’s existing knowledge of the subject matter or reinforce key learning points. Each module ends in a short quiz. The course ends in a 15-question test with an 80% pass mark. Questions in the course are randomised from a choice of three so that learners may retake without getting the same questions.

Customised Content: CityLearning can tailor Market Abuse to different jurisdictions and customise the course with content specific to your company.

Accessibility: This course contains audio narration throughout.

Glossary of Terms: Unfamiliar terms are linked to this glossary when they are first used in the course. The glossary can be accessed at any time.

Multimedia Design: This course gets the message across with a mix of text, images, animation and video.

Interactive Content: We design our courses to keep learners engaged and thinking. Market Abuse contains:

• navigational interactive elements, such as next/back buttons and icons that reveal more content once clicked.
• learning interactive elements, including scenario-based questions.

Modular Structure: This course is broken down into short modules that take less than 10-20 minutes to complete, so learners can easily finish this course at their own pace.

Real Life Case Studies: Learners benefit from studying recent examples of market abuse. These highlight the importance of market abuse awareness and prevention. 

Market Abuse is available off-the-shelf for the UK and Ireland. The Irish version can be made to fit any EU member state with a few slight modifications.

CityLearning enjoys a longstanding reputation for the highest quality course content. We are committed to continuous improvement and have a well-established Quality Assurance System in place to measure and enhance our performance.

All project personnel are highly experienced in developing generic, customised and bespoke eLearning solutions for our clients.

Our courses are regularly reviewed by Subject Matter Experts at our client companies, a UK-based financial services regulatory consultancy and a leading Irish law firm.

CityLearning has been creating eLearning compliance training courses for 25 years. Our courses are accredited for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Ireland by the Institute of Bankers (IOB), Life Insurance Association (LIA) and Insurance Institute of Ireland (III), and by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) in the UK.

A stockbroking firm in Dublin, already a longstanding CityLearning client, reached out in 2016 looking for market abuse training. The Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and Market Abuse Directive (MAD II) were coming into force in a few months, and the company needed to train more than 300 staff on the new requirements. CityLearning’s Market Abuse training course had been updated with the new legislation. This meant the stockbroking firm were able to quickly train all their staff on the new requirements within the designated timeframe.