Shanghai Futures Exchange (hereinafter referred to as “The Exchange”) has been on continuous efforts in investigating and penalizing violations of relevant rules and regulations, so as to strengthen the risk management of the futures market, regulate the futures trading activities and protect the legitimate rights and interests of futures market participants. The enforcement against such violations in April 2020 are listed as follows:
In the aspect of administration of abnormal trading behaviors, the Exchange has dealt with a total of 75 cases, among which 38 cases were self-trades, 32 cases were frequent order cancellations, and 2 cases were exceeding the limit of placing and cancellation of large-amount orders,and 3 cases for the combined size of positions within a group of accounts with actual control relationship exceeding the position limit prescribed by the Exchange. The Exchange has separately notified the relevant clients by phone through members and placed 12 clients and 2 groups of accounts with actual control relationship on the Exchange’s watch list, notified 20 abnormal trading behaviors to all the members. The Exchange has suspended 5 clients and 1 group of accounts with actual control relationship from opening new positions on the relevant futures contracts and notified to the market.
In the aspect of identification and cooperative investigation of accounts with actual control relationship, The Exchange has identified 51 groups of 127 clients that exist the actual control relationship.
In the aspect of inspecting cases violating trading rules,the Exchange has dealt with 2 cases suspected of violation trading rules,which were suspected of existing actual control relationship but has not reported. The Exchange reminds the investors to be in compliance with its rules in the trading activities and cooperate with the reporting of actual control relationship accounts.
Shanghai Futures Exchange
May 14, 2020