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title: UK FCA Market Watch | Guide For Compliance Teams
description: Market Watch notices are a key tool for compliance teams to understand where the FCA are spending their time and resources.
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### UK FCA Market Watch

# A Guide For Regulatory Compliance Or A Warning About Enforcement Action?

## Understand Where the FCA Are Spending Their Time and Resources

To what extent are Market Watch releases, the preeminent guidance from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) about market abuse, a leading indicator of investigations and enforcement action?

This report discusses key insights and solidifies the need to ‘future-proof’ trade surveillance processes against enforcement action.

Key insights include:

- Market Watch 73 continues the FCA’s insistence that firms conduct risk assessments and detect market abuse
- How the FCA fined a broker-dealer for issues about which the regulator previously warned
- The importance of sharing high-quality data for the FCA’s own market surveillance

**Protect your firm** from risk with these insights.

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## "The clear message: tailored trade surveillance tools that are aligned to risk assessments, paired with being scalable and explainable remain of paramount importance."

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## Relevant News

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#### INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

### Modern Trade Surveillance: Smarter, More Flexible Regulatory Technology

 April 17, 2023 

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#### VALIDUS IN PRACTICE (VIP)

### FCA Asking Wholesale Brokers to Prepare for a Series of Risks

 Jan 17, 2023 

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#### PRESS RELEASES

### New Research by Acuiti and Eventus Reveals Increased Investment in Trade Surveillance

 Nov 29, 2022 

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