City & Financial Global is delighted to announce its annual Market Abuse and Market Manipulation Summit taking place in Central London on 28th April 2025. This highly regarded and long-standing event is an exclusive gathering of leading legal, compliance and financial crimes specialists from all sectors of the financial services community. It is the only event of its kind to provide a full day of comprehensive coverage of all the latest developments in the field.

The Summit will address the FCA’s proposals for a new regulatory framework and approach for preventing, detecting and disrupting cryptoasset market abuse - the Market Abuse Regime for Cryptoassets (MARC) - which would address the specific challenges related to market abuse that cryptoassets present (e.g., a lack of clearly identifiable issuer of assets).

Other developments which will be covered at this year’s event include: the role of AI in detecting and preventing market abuse (and the risks of AI being used to perpetrate it); recent guidance on the identification and dissemination of inside information; the adequacy of third party surveillance systems and the risks of reliance on them; developments in the foreign exchange and commodities markets; enforcement trends particularly in the context of market manipulation; and the liability of PDMRs and others subject to the SMCR.