World Money Laundering Report Volume 12 Number 5 - Cross Border Manipulation of Equity Markets

Cross border Manipulation of Equity Markets

World Money Laundering Report continues its long tradition of saying the unsayable.

In this issue:

Cross Border Manipulation of Equity Markets.

There is a focus on small time pump and dump players and on those who use derivatives to manipulate the value of shares in countries other than their own.

But there are darker sides: those who value companies, the accountancy and audit professions, telesales companies, directors of companies, even investment bankers - all of whom act broadly within rules that they and their industries define and which governments, broadly, accept.

But these are responsible for some of the largest frauds on markets.

World Money Laundering Report continues its long tradition of saying the unsayable.

There is an unspoken conspiracy to fake the values of companies and defeat careful shareholders. Here's how it's done.

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Published in the UK 28 October 2013. ISSN 1473-3439