Every Insider Trade, One Schema

Under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act, officers, directors and beneficial owners of more than 10% of a registered class of equity securities report changes in their holdings on Form 4 within two business days of the transaction. Form 3 is the initial statement when someone becomes an insider, and Form 5 is an annual catch-up.

The US insider trading dataset turns every Form 4 into clean rows: the issuer’s ticker and CIK, the reporting owner’s name and CIK, their officer title and director, officer and 10% owner flags, the transaction date and code, acquired or disposed, shares, price per share, the value of the trade and the shares owned after it. Full histories are available company by company.

Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation requires persons discharging managerial responsibilities (PDMRs) and their closely associated persons to notify every transaction in the issuer’s shares, debt instruments or linked derivatives within three business days, once their yearly transactions pass a de minimis threshold. PDMRs may not trade during a closed period of 30 calendar days before an interim or year-end report. Every notice carries the same core facts: name, position, issuer, LEI, instrument and ISIN, nature of the transaction, price and volume, date and venue.

PandorLabs covers directors’ dealings across Europe market by market: Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Poland and Bulgaria, each as its own dataset with the same columns.

The Nordic markets are covered too: Denmark, Finland and Norway, where MAR applies through the EEA and primary insiders must report their trades. Every European market arrives in one schema, ready to compare side by side.

The UK kept the Market Abuse Regulation after Brexit, so UK directors’ dealings are PDMR notifications under UK MAR Article 19. The UK dataset gives one row per person and instrument, with the issuer’s LEI and ISIN, the PDMR’s name and position, nature of the transaction, volume-weighted price, volume, currency, date and venue, with history available company by company.

Switzerland has its own regime: listed issuers report management transactions by board and executive members, identified by whether they sit on the board or the executive committee. The Swiss dataset carries the issuer, ISIN, that function, trade date, purchase or sale, type of security, size, price and value in Swiss francs.

Under National Instrument 55-104, a Canadian reporting insider must report a change in holdings within five calendar days. The Canada dataset holds each insider transaction with the issuer, insider and relationship to the issuer, security, trade and filing dates, nature of transaction, number acquired or disposed, unit price, currency and closing balance.

In Brazil, directors, officers, board and fiscal council members and controlling shareholders of listed companies report their trades under article 11 of CVM Resolution 44, formerly ICVM 358. The Brazil dataset gives each movement as a row with the issuer, CNPJ, B3 ticker, insider group, movement type, trade and filing dates, quantity, unit price and volume.

Hong Kong’s disclosure of interests regime under Part XV of the Securities and Futures Ordinance requires directors and substantial shareholders, those holding 5% or more of a listed company’s voting shares, to disclose within three business days. The dataset covers those disclosures with stock code, holder, event date, reason code, shares involved, average price and the balance after the event.

India’s insider trading rules are the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015. Under Regulation 7(2), promoters, directors, key managerial personnel and designated persons disclose trades worth more than ₹10 lakh in a calendar quarter. The dataset covers those disclosures with company, symbol, ISIN, person and category, transaction type and mode, trade dates, shares, value, price and holdings after.

In Korea, executives and major shareholders report changes in their ownership. The dataset carries the issuer and KRX code, reporter, executive position and board registration, reason for the change, change date, security, shares changed, unit price and holdings after. Mainland China is covered on both the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges: shareholding changes by directors, supervisors and senior management, with change date, reason, share change, average price and holdings after.

Japan is covered through the large shareholding reports required by the 5% rule: anyone who comes to hold more than 5% of a listed company’s shares reports within five business days, and again whenever the holding moves by one percentage point or more. Each row is one holder in one report, with the target issuer and securities code, the holding ratio now and in the previous report, total shares held, and the filing and obligation dates — a clear view of who is building or cutting a stake.

ASX Listing Rule 3.19A requires a listed entity to announce changes in a director’s interests within five business days, using Appendix 3X when a director is appointed, Appendix 3Y for each change and Appendix 3Z when they leave. New Zealand’s Financial Markets Conduct Act requires directors and senior managers to disclose their dealings, and substantial product holders of 5% or more to disclose their positions. Both datasets track every notice with the issuer, ticker, the person named and the release time.

The Philippines dataset covers changes in the shareholdings of directors and principal officers, with the issuer, ticker, insider and position, trade date, acquired or disposed, shares, price and holdings after, one row per transaction.

Every market shares one schema: exchange and country; issuer name, ticker, ISIN and issuer id; insider name, title or position and the director, officer and 10% owner flags; transaction date and filing date; the original transaction code and its description; acquired or disposed and the BUY, SELL or OTHER direction; shares, price, currency and value; shares owned after the trade; the security and trading venue; and the official filing reference.

The original record is kept alongside the standard columns, so no detail is lost. Rows are deduplicated, so amendments and refreshes never create double counts, and one schema across 26 markets means one model, one screen and one backtest instead of one per country.

Investors screen for open-market purchases by chief executives and finance directors, for cluster buying where several insiders of one company buy within a few weeks, and for purchases that go against a falling share price. Systematic funds use long histories of insider transactions as a factor and test it across markets, which a shared schema makes possible from day one.

Compliance and surveillance teams monitor a watchlist of issuers or individuals, check that trades were filed within the market’s deadline by comparing trade and filing dates, and spot dealings during closed periods. Journalists and researchers use the data for event studies around earnings, takeovers and index changes, with an official filing reference behind every number they quote.

Each dataset page shows when it was last updated and how many rows it holds. Markets come with deep history and are kept current with regular updates, and most markets are also available company by company across their full published history. Need it fresher or on a schedule? Set up a managed daily, weekly or monthly feed, or request a refresh and follow it live in your dashboard.