[jameshart]

The rules that govern what individual employees are allowed to do privately with the information they come across in the course of their work which belongs to their employer are very different to the rules that govern what the company itself is allowed to do with the information it has access to.

Of course you couldn't personally beneficially trade on information you accessed in the course of your employment (although primarily that would be a breach of your employment terms, not necessarily a breach of the law...)

But that says nothing whatsoever about what you can do with that information to benefit the company.