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Analysing the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) enforcement data can offer a useful insight into how regulators apply the regulation in practice. You can identify the areas of greatest risk. This helps you understand where you need to prioritise your compliance strategy and build a robust business case for allocating additional budget towards your compliance controls.
Previously, this information was not easy to collate, being spread across regulatory announcements, press releases and separate guidance documents from both the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and regulatory authorities across the EU.
Now, Euronext Corporate Solutions’ MAR Enforcement Hub brings these sources together in an easy-to-read dashboard. This will provide your team with oversight into the numbers and value of MAR sanctions imposed across the EU, as well as resources to help you protect your organisation from market abuse risk.
MAR enforcement in one place
Track sanctions, follow regulatory updates and access free compliance resources.
What you can find in the MAR Enforcement Hub
| Hub section | What it provides | How you can use the information |
|---|---|---|
| Data dashboard | Data on the development of MAR sanctions and fines since its inception in 2016 | Track enforcement trends and use the information to assess compliance risk. Provide evidence of compliance risk to build a case for budget allocation. |
| Compliance resources | Guides covering how to create a robust MAR compliance plan, how to manage closed periods, PDMR trading, using AI for compliance and other MAR topics | Learn the latest insights and best practices from capital markets experts to inform your compliance reviews, training and day-to-day compliance work. |
| Regulatory updates | Summaries of relevant EU and ESMA developments | Identify changes that may require action from your organisation. |
| Breach cases | Examples of MAR infringements and the circumstances behind them | Compare the reasons behind real failures with your own controls and procedures to understand where to strengthen them. |
Use the data to streamline decision-making
The data dashboard brings MAR enforcement information together so you can review enforcement trends without searching through separate regulatory reports. Use it to inform your risk assessments and give senior management evidence to support investment in compliance controls.
When building a board briefing, contextualise the data for your organisation.
Explain
the risks associated with your industry or operations
Assess
your existing controls to see whether they meet these risks
Recommend
appropriate actions, backed by the data in the hub to show potential consequences
Inform conversations with senior management
Compliance teams often need to explain why a control or training programme should be improved before a failure occurs. The hub’s external enforcement evidence can provide support to that argument, making it tangible for leaders in charge of budgets.
For a concise management briefing, cover four points:
- What happened: Summarise the non-compliance risks.
- Why it matters: Explain how these risks could affect your organisation.
- What is already in place: Describe the current control and its owner.
- What needs to change: Set out the action, deadline and expected result.
Keep up with changes affecting MAR processes
The MAR Enforcement Hub includes summaries of relevant EU and ESMA developments, including amendments to MAR introduced through the EU Listing Act. It also brings together supporting materials on topics such as PDMR trade approvals and closed periods. Use these updates as a prompt to check:
- Whether any internal procedure needs to change
- Which policy or control is affected
- Who should approve the response
- Whether employees need updated guidance
- What evidence you should retain once the change is complete
Learn from cases involving other organisations
When reading a case study on MAR breaches, ask:
- Do we have a compliance control to cover this situation?
- Who owns that control?
- Do the relevant employees understand what they must do?
- Does the process work even under time pressure?
- Could we show when each step was completed?
- Has an internal audit or compliance review tested the control recently?
These examples show that weak controls or failures have significant consequences for companies and individuals.