FSA to sell Transaction Reporting System to LSE

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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has entered into a conditional agreement to sell the Transaction Reporting System (TRS) to the London Stock Exchange (LSE) for £15m.

The TRS is an approved reporting mechanism (ARM) in the UK market for the reporting of transactions in regulated instruments by firms to the FSA. It is designed to help the regulator detect and investigate suspected cases of market abuse, insider trading, market manipulation and is also used as part of its monitoring of supervised firm activity. It was developed by the FSA to help firms meet their MiFID reporting obligations after November 2007. However, the FSA now says a "competitive market" has developed for the provision of transaction reporting services to the industry, includ...

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