11.   Macquarie Bank Ltd. executive Simon Hannes appeared in a Sydney court today charged with insider trading, the Australian Securities Commission said in a statement.

12.   Securities lawyers say the stock purchases by directors may not violate regulations against insider trading because they came well after an offer was made and rejected.

13.   The agency added Lehman to a suit filed in a Boston federal court that charges Pinez with insider trading.

14.   The code requires stock trading companies to adopt internal auditing mechanisms and refrain from transactions aimed at distorting the Greek securities market, insider trading or money laundering.

15.   The Finance Ministry is also pushing legislation that would raise fines for financial crimes like hindering investigations, insider trading and reimbursing clients for losses.

16.   The next news of insider trading could come this week.

17.   The unusual trading activity suggests regulators will want to find out if insider trading laws were broken, analysts said.

18.   There are a host of other reasons insiders trade their stock in waves.

19.   Under securities law, brokerage firms are responsible for having procedures to guard against insider trading, Bebel said.

20.   Under the Insider Trading Act enacted last year, however, insider trading not only became a criminal offense but a civil one, too.