This week, Louis Morisset, the President and CEO of Quebec's Autorité des marchés financiers (the AMF) announced that they "have made suppressing illegal insider trading and market manipulation a top priority". In the past few days only, the AMF has initiated proceedings in at least three matters in relation to allegations of insider trading, including one against, notably, individuals and companies related to Amaya Inc., one of the major online gaming companies in the world. A link to the AMF press releases is found below:
https://www.lautorite.qc.ca/en/press-releases-2016-corpo.html
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