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Market integrity & the rules
Why markets need integrity, how venues and order books form a price, and the market-abuse regimes of all six jurisdictions set side by side.
· Professional course · Six jurisdictions · Self-paced
Understand the conduct you’re paid to catch.
A practitioner-grade course in trade surveillance. The market-abuse law, the manipulation typologies, and how a real investigation runs from first alert to filing, across the US, UK, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. Comprehensively built by working trade surveillance professionals.
13 modules
~54 hours
Six jurisdictions
Certificate of completion
§ 01 · Curriculum
What you’ll learn
Four threads run through all thirteen modules. Every concept is paired with the operative regulatory provisions and a worked enforcement example.
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Manipulation & insider typologies
Spoofing, layering, wash trading, front running, marking the close, ramp-and-dump, benchmark rigging, and the mechanics of inside information.
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Systems, calibration & investigation
The five-layer surveillance pipeline, how alerts are designed and parameters calibrated, and the seven-stage investigation lifecycle through to filing.
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Six-jurisdiction depth
How the same conduct is governed under the US, UK, Swiss, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australian regimes, plus digital assets and communications surveillance.
§ 02 · Audience
Who this is for
For working compliance professionals, from analysts levelling up to teams standardising how they train.
Start here
Surveillance analysts
Stop pattern-matching alerts. Understand the conduct and the law behind them, and earn a credential you can put on a CV.
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Compliance officers
A rigorous, jurisdiction-aware grounding in market conduct and the surveillance obligations that follow from it.
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Investigators
Trade reconstruction, connected-parties analysis, materiality, and the discipline of a closure rationale that holds up.
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Governance & risk
How surveillance sits within the three lines of defence, the accountability regimes, and programme assurance.
§ 03 · Structure
Thirteen modules, sequenced.
Eleven core modules and two electives, around 54 hours. Expand any module for an outline.
MOD · 01 Foundations of Market Integrity 3h
Why markets need integrity, the four pillars of fair markets, and the market structure (venues, order books, price formation) that surveillance is built on.
MOD · 02 The Global Regulatory Framework 4h
IOSCO foundations, then the market-abuse regimes of all six jurisdictions (US, UK, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia) in a single comparative frame.
MOD · 03 Inside Information 4h
What constitutes inside information, the categories of insider, the tipping-chain doctrine, and the pre-announcement trading investigation framework.
MOD · 04A Market Manipulation: Foundational 3.5h
Wash trading and painting the tape, front running, marking the close, spoofing and layering: the foundational typologies and the alert signatures that catch them.
MOD · 04B Market Manipulation: Advanced 4h
Price-manipulation schemes, pump-and-dump and ramp-and-dump, benchmark rigging, momentum ignition and quote stuffing.
MOD · 05 Surveillance Systems & Technology 4h
The five-layer surveillance pipeline, rules-based alert design, the data it depends on, and the regulatory audit infrastructure behind modern monitoring.
MOD · 06 Investigation Workflows 5h
The seven-stage investigation lifecycle: alert triage, trade reconstruction, connected-parties analysis, the filing decision, and a closure that stands up.
MOD · 07 Calibration Methods & Parameter Setting 4.5h
Scenario parameters, calibration methodology, above- and below-the-line testing, data integrity, and how programme effectiveness is measured.
MOD · 08 Governance, Culture & Compliance 3.5h
Compliance-programme design, the three lines of defence, individual accountability regimes, and the observable indicators of conduct risk.
MOD · 09 AI and the Future of Surveillance 4.5h
NLP, graph analytics and anomaly detection; the regulatory posture on AI across jurisdictions; and the human-AI boundary, where some decisions cannot be delegated.
MOD · 10 Capstone: Comprehensive Case Study 3h
A progressive, end-to-end investigation that pulls the whole programme together, from first alert to filing decision and regulatory engagement.
ELEC · E1 Digital Assets & Crypto SurveillanceElective 5.5h
Digital-asset taxonomy, the crypto manipulation typologies, on-chain analytics, and the principle that classification determines surveillance obligation.
ELEC · E2 Communications SurveillanceElective 5.5h
Voice, electronic and social-media surveillance; correlating communications with trading; and the off-channel record-keeping enforcement wave.
§ 04 · Why this course
Built for the people who do the work.
Built by practitioners
Written by working trade surveillance professionals, for the analysts, investigators and compliance teams who run alerts, investigations and filings every day.
The whole workflow
Order-book mechanics, alert triage, trade reconstruction, the filing decision and case closure. The full job, not fragments of it.
Vendor-neutral & multi-jurisdiction
Tied to no surveillance platform, and it does not treat Asia as a footnote to a US syllabus. Six jurisdictions, all to the same depth, including the APAC coverage few attempt.