Your controls look reasonable - but do they hold up under scrutiny?
Market Abuse Risk Assessment captures how your firm traded when it was written. As strategies evolve, governance structures shift and regulatory expectations develop, that snapshot ages. Regulators don't want to see a document completed last year. They want evidence that market abuse risk is understood and actively managed today.
How MAR360's Market Abuse Risk Assessment Software works
Built from enforcement experience, not templates
Every risk category and questionnaire is drawn from regulatory enforcement experience. Not generic compliance frameworks that ask the same questions regardless of how your firm actually operates.
Live scoring that moves with your firm
Risk ratings update as trading strategies, governance structures and business profile change. Your assessment reflects current exposure, not a snapshot from the day it was implemented.
Peer benchmarking, not abstract standards
Controls are assessed against firms of comparable size and complexity. You see where you stand relative to the market and where remediation effort will deliver the greatest impact.
Gap identification and remediation planning
Where risks exceed your control adequacy, MARA surfaces them clearly with a prioritised action plan - telling firms precisely what needs to be addresses and in what order. Regulators expect to see not just that risks have been identified, but there there is a credible plan to reduce them. MARA provides that plan.
Audit-ready evidence at every stage
Every assessment, every update, every decision is logged and exportable - creating the documentary record regulators expect to find rather than one assembled under pressure.
Your MARC rating
Every engagement produces your firm's Market Abuse Risk Controls rating - a peer-benchmarked, full-coverage score that translates your risk and controls position into a single defensible view for regulators, boards and auditors.
Led by people who've sat on the other side
Our team brings decades of combined regulatory and enforcement experience. Every engagement is shaped by people who understand what scrutiny actually looks like, not just what the rulebook says.
What the Market Abuse Risk Assessment covers
MARA maps your firm's market abuse risk profile across 27 risk areas - insider trading, market manipulation, information management, surveillance adequacy, governance and more. It benchmarks that profile against both regulatory expectations and peer firms, giving compliance teams a clear view of where controls are strong, where they are fragile, and where documentation has drifted from operational reality. The output is not a checklist. It is a defensible position - with the evidence trail to support it.
Market Abuse Risk Assessment as part of a connected framework
A market abuse risk assessment that sits in isolation is still just a document. MARA feeds directly into how surveillance rules are calibrated and where training gaps are identified - closing the loop between understanding risk and managing it.