Insider trading: o abuso de informação privilegiada

• Autor(a) principal: Matos, Cátia Isabel Correia Rosa Miguel de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/17573
• topic: Acesso à informação; Mercado de valores mobiliários; Crime; Igualdade de oportunidades; Sociedade anónima; Inside information; Crime of insider trading; Insider trading; Securities markets; Equality; Liability; Board members

The financial market should be guided by its efficiency, integrity, transparency and equal access to information. All these values are called upon question by situations of market abuse, such as the crime of insider trading. The illicit of insider trading occurs when a person possesses inside information and uses that information by acquiring or disposing of, for its own account or for the account of a third party, directly or indirectly, financial instruments to which that information relate, obtaining for himself an undue benefit from the inside information to the disadvantage of third parties who are unaware of such information. This illicit practice results in the weakening of the integrity of financial markets and investor confidence. In order to ensure the integrity of the markets and the trust of the acting agents, the practice of insider trading crime should be censored and, as a consequence, sanctions should be applied.