Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

713 results about this entity

Period: 02 Sep 2004 - 14 Aug 2024

FSA fines Zurich £2.275m over customer data loss

Zurich Insurance's UK arm has been hit with a record £2.275 million fine from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over the loss of a backup data tape containing the details of 46,000 customers.

RBS hit with £5.6m fine for sanctions screening failings

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been fined £5.6 million by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for IT systems failures that could have resulted in terrorist financing.

Drunk oil trader banned and fined

An oil trader who bought seven million barrels of crude in the early hours after "extremely heavy drinking" has been banned and fined by the FSA.

FSA warns on social media financial promotions

The FSA says financial firms must ensure they provide appropriate risk warnings when using new media such as social networking sites, blogs and forums to promote products and services.

FaceTime beefs up social networking policing app

FaceTime Communications has upgraded its Web gateway for firms looking to monitor and control employee content posted to blogs, wikis and social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Technology, not regulation, key to fighting insider trading - survey

Insider trading is a systemic risk that is largely immune to regulation and instead needs to be tackled culturally and technologically, according to a survey of UK market players by MPI Europe.

Commerzbank hit with FSA fine for two-year transaction reporting failures

Germany's Commerzbank has been fined £595,000 by the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to provide accurate transaction reports used to fight insider trading.

FSA slaps £4.2 million fines on three firms for transaction reporting breaches

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Credit Suisse, Getco and Instinet a total of £4.2 million for transaction reporting failures.

FSA wants firms to tape mobile phone calls

The Financial Services Authority is proposing new rules that would require banks and securities firms to tape and record staff mobile phone calls as part of a concerted crackdown on insider dealing.

SEC to build IT Forensics Lab

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is to build a new 'state-of-the-art IT Forensics Lab' after admitting that successive technology budget cuts between 2005 and 2007 severely constrained its ability to effectively police the markets.

UBS plans European dark pool

Swiss bank UBS is planning to launch a dark pool multilateral trading facility (MTF) for crossing orders in European stocks.

FSA and police find boiler room 'master list'

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) and City of London Police have uncovered a 'master list' of 10,000 UK names circulating among boiler room share fraudsters.