It is illegal to be a banker? It is different from the nature of a fund company. The Criminal Law and Securities Law have severe penalties for this.

Article 182 of the Criminal Law: Whoever manipulates the securities or futures markets under one of the following circumstances, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined; If the case is particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined:

(1) Individually or in collusion, concentrating financial advantages, shareholding or position advantages, or taking advantage of information advantages to jointly or continuously trade; Manipulating securities and futures trading prices or securities and futures trading volumes;

(2) Colluding with others to conduct securities and futures transactions with each other at a pre-agreed time, price and method, affecting the securities and futures trading prices Or the trading volume of securities and futures;

(3) Conducting securities transactions between accounts actually controlled by oneself, or using oneself as the trading object, buying and selling futures contracts by oneself, affecting the trading prices of securities and futures Or the trading volume of securities and futures;

(4) Manipulating the securities and futures markets by other methods.

If a unit commits the crime in the preceding paragraph, the unit shall be fined, and the person directly in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

"Securities Law"

Article 77 of the "Securities Law" prohibits anyone from manipulating the securities market by the following means:

(1) Individually or through Collusion, concentrating capital advantages, shareholding advantages, or taking advantage of information advantages to jointly or continuously buy and sell, to manipulate securities trading prices or securities trading volumes;

(2) Collusion with others, at a pre-agreed time, price and method Conducting securities transactions with each other, affecting the securities transaction price or securities transaction volume;

(3) Conducting securities transactions between accounts actually controlled by oneself, affecting the securities transaction price or securities transaction volume;

< p> (4) Manipulating the securities market by other means.

If the manipulation of the securities market causes losses to investors, the perpetrator shall bear liability for compensation in accordance with the law.