Problem
Insider dealing
Other Names:
Insider tradingIllicit trading
Stock scandal
Securities fraud
Insider trade
Nature:
Any individual or corporation who has price-sensitive information about a public corporation which is inaccessible or not available to the public and who uses that information to trade in stocks or bonds to his own benefit is guilty of insider trading. Inside trading flourishes best at a time, when there is a high proportion of takeovers and mergers, for those are the events which most effect share prices.
Incidence:
Insider trading scandals have recently involved Pechiney SA and Triangle Industries in France; County NatWest WoodMac Securities and Guinness in the UK; Drexel Burnham, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and The Chicago Board of Trade, and the Butcher brothers banks in the US; Operadora de Bolsa in Mexico; and the Recruit Cosmos Co, Nippon Steel and Sankyo Seiki, the central bank in Taiwan, and Kyodo Shiryo in Japan. In China in 1994 insider dealing, involving party officials and local bureaucrats as well as companies was widespread and had proven difficult to control.
Broader Problems:
Corporate crimeCrimes against tradeInadequate corporate governanceSecurities and commodities exchange violations Narrower Problems:
Commodities trading fraud Related Problems:
Documentary fraud Aggravates:
Inadequate management of government finances Strategies:
Informing about fraudExposing stock scandalCovering-up stock scandalInsider dealingBeing fraudulentTrading illegally Subject(s):
Commerce → Commercial exchangeCommerce → Conditions of trade
Commerce → Investment
Commerce → Merchandise
Commerce → Trade
Innovative change → Change
Law → Law
Societal Problems → Crime
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
D: Detailed problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST