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In recent months, the agency has carried out raids and pursued more cases involving insider trading and other market abuses.
The agency now carries out as many as 15 cases a year related to market abuses, compared with just a handful before 2007.
The others focus on the market in municipal securities, cases stemming from the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, market abuses like insider trading, and asset management, including hedge funds.
The action is the latest effort to clamp down on market abuses by the commission, which oversees the oil, natural gas and electricity sectors.
"These are large numbers of people over very long periods, able to conduct malpractice, market abuses and what you and I would call simple fraud".
Mr. Wood has been pushing the commission to improve its monitoring ability, creating a new office to respond to concerns about market abuses.
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The directive strengthens regulators' powers to tackle market abuse.
Jabre was fined £750,000 for market abuse offences in August 2006.
The FSA growled that "market abuse" could explain the "severe volatility" of shares.
Various financiers have also gone missing since last summer amid accusations by officials of stock market abuse.
But in this instance the FSA acknowledged that Mr Einhorn's market abuse "was not deliberate".
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