الحماية القانونية من التعامل بالأوراق المالية بناء على معلومات داخلية غير معلنة في التشريع الأردني

Abstract EN

Securities trading in the national capital market constitute a corner stone in building national economy and one of its major pillars.

Therefore the national legislation made sure to protect these transactions from various aspects, and one of these aspects is the prohibition of stocks trading based on inside information that is publicly disclosed, i.e, insider trading, since it poses serious harm to the national capital market and a violation to equal access to information principle in relation to securities for investors leading to lost of their confidence in the market which will also lead to damaging the economy as a whole.

Therefore, we will discuss in this research the legal protection of securities trading according to the Jordanian Companies' Law No.

17/1997 and Securities Law No.

76/2000 to clarify the position of the legislator in such transactions by explaining the responsibility of the client and the sanctions he might face.