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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.
A practitioner-grade course in trade surveillance. The market-abuse law, the manipulation typologies, and how a real investigation actually runs, across the US, UK, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. Built by working trade surveillance professionals.
Core modules11 · ~43 hrs
Electives (crypto · comms)2 · ~11 hrs
Knowledge assessments35 items per module
Capstone investigationstage-gated
Certificate of completionverifiable online
StatusIn final production · launching soon
§ 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.
Primary audience
Surveillance analysts
Stop pattern-matching alerts. Understand the conduct and the law behind them, and finish with a certificate of completion for your 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.
Module blotter · 13 rows
| Module | Title | Outline | Hrs | Type |
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| 01 | Foundations of Market Integrity | Pillars of fair markets; venues, order books, price formation | 3.0 | CORE |
| 02 | The Global Regulatory Framework | IOSCO; six market-abuse regimes, one comparative frame | 4.0 | CORE |
| 03 | Inside Information | Insiders, tipping chains, pre-announcement investigation | 4.0 | CORE |
| 04A | Market Manipulation: Foundational | Wash trading, front running, marking the close, spoofing | 3.5 | CORE |
| 04B | Market Manipulation: Advanced | Ramp-and-dump, benchmark rigging, momentum ignition | 4.0 | CORE |
| 05 | Surveillance Systems & Technology | Five-layer pipeline, alert design, audit infrastructure | 4.0 | CORE |
| 06 | Investigation Workflows | Triage, reconstruction, filing decision, closure | 5.0 | CORE |
| 07 | Calibration & Parameter Setting | Parameters, ATL/BTL testing, data integrity | 4.5 | CORE |
| 08 | Governance, Culture & Compliance | Programme design, three lines, accountability | 3.5 | CORE |
| 09 | AI and the Future of Surveillance | NLP, graph analytics, the human-AI boundary | 4.5 | CORE |
| 10 | Capstone: Comprehensive Case Study | End-to-end investigation, alert to regulator | 3.0 | CORE |
| E1 | Digital Assets & Crypto Surveillance | Asset taxonomy, crypto typologies, on-chain analytics | 5.5 | ELECTIVE |
| E2 | Communications Surveillance | Voice, e-comms, trade-comms correlation | 5.5 | ELECTIVE |
Every module closes with a 35-item knowledge assessment~54 hrs total
§ 04 · Read before you decide
Judge the standard first.
Three complete articles by the people who wrote the course, beside the six regimes the course covers.
Articles
Coverage · six regimes
US
SEC · CFTC · FinCEN
UK
FCA · UK MAR
CH
FINMA · FMIA
SG
MAS · SFA
HK
SFC · SFO
AU
ASIC · Corporations Act
Each regime in equal depth
§ 05 · 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
Six jurisdictions covered to the same depth, teaching you the discipline itself. Vendor-neutral, ensuring that the knowledge transfers regardless of your platform.