Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the July 2007 introduction of a pre-close call auction on the New Zealand stock market and its effect on share pricing quality and market manipulation. Design/methodology/approach – Market quality was tested using the methodology of...

In this paper, we use a discriminant analysis (DA) based model to identify stocks that are potentially manipulated. Earlier researchers have used Linear Discriminant Function (LDF), a type of DA, without validating the assumption governing the model. We tested the assumptions on data from the...

Multi-fractal analysis is now widely used in medicine to distinguish healthy and pathological conditions (i.e., healthy and cancerous tissues). We follow the same approach for financial markets: fractal tools disclose hidden information from time series and allow the identification of market...

There are two types of stock price manipulation examined in the theoretical literature: (1) insider trading, which involves private information that is true and (2) the public spreading of fraudulent false information. While there is a large empirical literature on insider trading, this is the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the appropriateness and effectiveness of using the right of private action against perpetrators of market manipulation. Design/methodology/approach – The author examines legislation in the USA, which gives victims the right to pursue private...

The factors that have contributed to the adoption of high-speed trading and affected market structure in recent years include competition, technology, and regulation. The unexpected ways in which these dynamic forces are coming together raise a number of important policy issues.

After the recent global crisis, corporate scandals and bankruptcy in US and Europe, there is some certain evidence on weak auditing, risk management, accounting and audit system. This paper chooses a different analytical approach and among its aims is to give some systematic opinions on...

Recent rapidly rising and volatile energy commodities prices and financial price manipulation scandals have brought the pricing mechanisms of crude oil derivatives to the fore of both popular press and policy initiatives. Among the most important of such commodities is Brent Crude. Brent Crude...

Use of trading strategies to mislead other market participants, commonly termed trade-based market manipulation, has been identified as a major problem faced by present day stock markets. Although some mathematical models of trade-based market manipulation have been previously developed, this...

The Banks and trust Companies Act, Financial Services Commission Act, and the Regulatory Act are considered for banking supervision. The assessment is also based on a self-assessment prepared by the Financial Services Commission (FSC). British Virgin Islands (BVI) law provides three classes of...