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She has access to every and any database as she is the one who pulls the data for auditors, so is privileged to confidential and/or non-public knowledge. And like someone mentioned above, just by proximity, I (potentially) have access to that knowledge.

Agreed.

My wife works in the audit department of a bank. I'm heavily regulated by the SEC on what stocks, ETFs, mutual funds I can buy/sell. An internal group monitors my buying/selling and makes approval/denial before I can do so.

I have to hold an ETF for 1 month before I can sell it--not that I should be swing trading ETFs, but still. It's very frustrating at times, especially when I'm relegated to using just her bank's trading platform, too.