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Insider Trading

Open market trading in the securities of a company by someone who has special information not available publicly. This information may be obtained because of the trader's position within the company or his relationship with a person who has access to such information because of a relationship with the company. Partly as a result of a series of insider trading scandals in the 1980s, insider trading is now illegal in nearly all major international markets.

Reducing insider trading increases customer protection. For more on the subject, see "Key Risk Concepts: Customer Protection."

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