https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/agency/AMF-FR/ The 30 most recent Autorité des marchés financiers (France) records in the Market Manipulation library, each linked to its primary source. en-us Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2026-04-insider-trading-2026/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2026-04-insider-trading-2026/ In May 2026 the Commission des sanctions fined Ytane Mamou EUR 30,000 and Elie Houri EUR 20,000 for buying Artefact shares in July 2021, shortly before the announcement of the sale of a controlling stake in the company, Mr Mamou having used the information and tipped Mr Houri. Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2025-11-13-ama-corporation-plc-false-information-2025/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2025-11-13-ama-corporation-plc-false-information-2025/ In November 2025 the AMF agreed a settlement with AMA Corporation PLC over a 30 July 2021 press release allegedly painting a one-sided picture of its half-year, and a late disclosure of a missed revenue target; it agreed to pay EUR 300,000. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR misleading-issuer-disclosure https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2025-11-13-christian-guillemot-false-information-2025/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2025-11-13-christian-guillemot-false-information-2025/ In November 2025 the AMF agreed a settlement with Christian Guillemot, former chief executive of AMA Corporation, over the same 30 July 2021 press release and late disclosure alleged against the company; he agreed to pay EUR 350,000. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR misleading-issuer-disclosure https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-06-insider-trading-2025/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-06-insider-trading-2025/ In July 2025 the Commission des sanctions fined the mountain-infrastructure group MND, its chief executive and eight others a combined EUR 1.89 million, and permanently barred a financial adviser and his firm from advising. It found late disclosure of four items of inside information, and insider dealing, illicit disclosure and tipping around two cable-car contracts in June and August 2020. Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-05-market-abuse-2025/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-05-market-abuse-2025/ In June 2025 the Commission des sanctions fined a Luxembourg holding company that controlled the fashion group SMCP, its manager, a British Virgin Islands company and SMCP itself a combined EUR 1.72 million. The main finding was a January 2022 press release that misdescribed who stood behind a buyer of SMCP shares, alongside shareholding-disclosure failures. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR misleading-issuer-disclosure https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2025-05-28-global-income-s-a-insider-trading-2025/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2025-05-28-global-income-s-a-insider-trading-2025/ In May 2025 the AMF agreed a settlement with the family office Global Income over its trading on 12 April 2022 after learning of a discounted private placement, at a gain of EUR 44,386; it agreed to pay EUR 45,000. Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2025-05-28-jean-philippe-cridlig-insider-trading-2025/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2025-05-28-jean-philippe-cridlig-insider-trading-2025/ In May 2025 the AMF agreed a settlement with Jean-Philippe Cridlig, manager of a fund adviser, over the sale on 14 April 2022 of 42,826 shares subscribed in a private placement before it was announced; he agreed to pay EUR 35,000. Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-04-insider-trading-2025/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-04-insider-trading-2025/ In May 2025 the Commission des sanctions fined four respondents EUR 700,000 in total over trading in Lysogene shares on 11 February 2021, the day after the biotech received FDA clearance to start clinical trials of its candidate drug LYS-GM101. It found illicit disclosure, use of the information and a recommendation to buy. Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-03-insider-trading-2025/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-03-insider-trading-2025/ In March 2025 the Commission des sanctions rejected insider dealing and illicit disclosure charges against Medicrea's co-founder and three others over trades before Medtronic's planned takeover of Medicrea in July 2020. It accepted that the information was inside information but found no proof that anyone but the co-founder held it. Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-02-spoofing-2025/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-02-spoofing-2025/ In February 2025 the Commission des sanctions fined an individual trader EUR 500,000 and two collaborators EUR 60,000 and EUR 30,000 for a scheme using orders in shares, cancelled before execution, to move the quotes of related warrants traded on German platforms. Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR spoofing https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-01-market-abuse-2025/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2025-01-market-abuse-2025/ In January 2025 the Commission des sanctions fined the biotech company Pharnext EUR 500,000 and its two successive chief executives EUR 200,000 and EUR 100,000 for failing to disclose US regulator feedback on its lead drug candidate and for publishing misleading statements about it between 2019 and 2021. Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR misleading-issuer-disclosure https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-12-marking-the-close-2024/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-12-marking-the-close-2024/ In December 2024 the Commission des sanctions fined a San Francisco biotech fund manager EUR 7 million and its founder EUR 3 million for selling Innate Pharma shares in the closing auctions of five sessions in October 2019, which set the price of a Nasdaq offering, and fined the firm for failing to declare crossing the 5 percent threshold. Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR marking-the-close https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-11-price-manipulation-2024/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-11-price-manipulation-2024/ In December 2024 the Commission des sanctions fined a gold-mining company, its chief executive, its auditors and a convertible-bond financing fund's managers a combined EUR 4.15 million. It found misleading disclosures about a convertible-bond financing and abusive selling of the shares the financing generated in late 2017. Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR price-manipulation https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-08-insider-trading-2024/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-08-insider-trading-2024/ In July 2024 the Commission des sanctions fined the diagnostics company Biosynex, four of its directors and three of their holding companies a combined EUR 930,000. The directors sold shares in April 2020 knowing the company was about to sell all its own treasury shares, and the company failed to circulate information about Covid-19 tests that its chief executive had given to a journalist. Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-07-insider-trading-2024/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-07-insider-trading-2024/ In July 2024 the Commission des sanctions fined the drone maker Parrot EUR 150,000, its chief executive EUR 60,000 and its deputy chief executive EUR 210,000. It found one misleading statement in a 2018 half-year report and insider dealing by the deputy before a planned takeover bid, and rejected the other charges. Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR misleading-issuer-disclosure insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2024-07-17-christophe-cambournac-insider-trading-2024/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2024-07-17-christophe-cambournac-insider-trading-2024/ In July 2024 the AMF agreed a settlement with Christophe Cambournac, an executive committee member, over the sale of 6,728 shares on 24 September 2021 before news of a governance crisis, and unreported transactions; he agreed to pay EUR 100,000. Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2024-07-17-jennifer-ann-hubber-insider-trading-2024/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2024-07-17-jennifer-ann-hubber-insider-trading-2024/ In July 2024 the AMF agreed a settlement with Jennifer Ann Hubber, a director and executive committee member, over the sale of 8,858 shares in September 2021 before news of a governance crisis, and unreported transactions; she agreed to pay EUR 160,000. Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-04-insider-trading-2024/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-04-insider-trading-2024/ In May 2024 the Commission des sanctions fined Clément Miserez EUR 120,000 for buying shares of a listed acquisition vehicle on 11 June 2020, before its founders announced a takeover bid. It cleared the founder, M. A, and a second buyer, M. B. Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-03-insider-trading-2024/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-03-insider-trading-2024/ In January 2024 the Commission des sanctions rejected insider dealing charges against twelve individuals who traded in Direct Energie shares before Total announced a takeover in April 2018. It accepted that the takeover news was inside information from 6 April 2018 but found no proof that any of them held it. Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-02-price-manipulation-2024/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2024-02-price-manipulation-2024/ In January 2024 the Commission des sanctions fined a Delaware consulting company and four individuals a combined EUR 4.4 million for a share-selling scheme built around a so-called market making programme in three small Paris-listed stocks in 2018 and 2019, and fined three further individuals for unreported share dealings. Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR price-manipulation https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2023-16-market-abuse-2023/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2023-16-market-abuse-2023/ In November 2023 the Commission des sanctions fined the listed health-products company Visiomed Group EUR 200,000 and two of its executives EUR 650,000 and EUR 350,000 for misleading press releases and reports between October 2017 and May 2019. It also fined a financing fund EUR 100,000 for failing to notify short-position threshold crossings. Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR misleading-issuer-disclosure https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2023-11-16-jordi-eeman-layering-2023/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2023-11-16-jordi-eeman-layering-2023/ In November 2023 the AMF agreed a settlement with the independent trader Jordi Eeman over 30 sequences in 21 shares in 2020 to 2021 in which he allegedly used large orders cancelled unexecuted to move the book; he agreed to pay EUR 150,000. Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR layering spoofing https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2023-14-insider-trading-2023/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2023-14-insider-trading-2023/ In November 2023 the Commission des sanctions fined a senior executive of a listed home-furnishings group EUR 80,000 and a second individual EUR 120,000 for passing and using advance knowledge of the group's first-quarter and half-year 2019 figures. Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2023-13-market-abuse-2023/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2023-13-market-abuse-2023/ In September 2023 the Commission des sanctions fined the holding company Rallye EUR 25 million and its former chief executive EUR 1 million for misleading financial communications between March 2018 and May 2019 about its liquidity lines and financing terms. It found eleven publications breached the market manipulation rules on false or misleading information. Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR misleading-issuer-disclosure https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2023-04-insider-trading-2023/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2023-04-insider-trading-2023/ In March 2023 the Commission des sanctions fined an individual, published as M. A, EUR 700,000 for buying derivatives on a large listed industrial group the day before each of two results announcements in 2020, using advance knowledge of better-than-expected figures. Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2023-02-insider-trading-2023/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2023-02-insider-trading-2023/ In January 2023 the Commission des sanctions imposed fines totalling EUR 3.16 million on ten investors and on the listed property company Terreïs over trading ahead of Swiss Life's planned purchase of Terreïs shares and then assets, in autumn 2018 and early 2019. It found insider dealing by most respondents, an incitement within one family, and a failure by the company to keep its insider list. Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2022-06-spoofing-2022/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2022-06-spoofing-2022/ In May 2022 the Commission des sanctions fined a Dutch proprietary trading firm and three traders a combined EUR 780,000 for repeated order-book activity on Euronext Paris shares between 2013 and 2016 that gave misleading signals and built a dominant position. The charge against a fourth company lapsed because it had been wound up. Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR spoofing https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2022-04-27-dariah-false-information-2022/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-tra-2022-04-27-dariah-false-information-2022/ In April 2022 the AMF agreed a settlement with Dylan Dariah over two false major-shareholding notices filed in May 2021 for a company that held no Atos shares; he agreed to pay EUR 800 in instalments. Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2022-03-insider-trading-2022/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2022-03-insider-trading-2022/ In March 2022 the Commission des sanctions fined a drug developer, a scientific co-founder and a fund manager a combined EUR 1.55 million over advance knowledge of negative regulatory opinions on masitinib. It found illicit disclosure and insider dealing in 2017 and 2018 and a late disclosure by the company, and it cleared the chief executive. Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR insider-trading https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2022-02-newsletter-scalping-2022/ https://marketmanipulation.org/cases/amf-fr-san-2022-02-newsletter-scalping-2022/ In March 2022 the Commission des sanctions fined a financial newsletter publisher EUR 600,000 and its director EUR 200,000 for recommending Mauna Kea Tech shares in October 2017 without disclosing that group companies held the stock. It found the recommendation moved the price, and it cleared the parent company. Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT AMF-FR newsletter-scalping