Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

820 results about this entity

Period: 02 Sep 2004 - 24 Nov 2025

New City watchdog to trawl Twitter for bad bank behaviour

The head of new City watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority has vowed to take a more proactive approach than his predecessors, monitoring social media sites like Twitter to sniff out illegal behaviour.

Payleven gets FSA authorisation

Payleven, one of several European firms hawking an app and dongle-based system for turning smartphones into card readers, has been fully authorised by the UK's Financial Services Authority as a payment institution.

JPMorgan data leak linked to seventh insider trading conviction

The Financial Services Authority has achieved the seventh conviction in an insider trading investigation centred around the leaking of price sensitive data from JPMorgan Cazenove.

Swift Trade loses appeal over £8m market abuse fine

Defunct day trading firm Swift Trade has lost its appeal against an £8 million fine for market manipulation handed down by the UK's Financial Services Authority in 2011.

UBS fined £29.7 million by FSA over rogue trading incident

The UK's Financial Services Authority has fined UBS £29.7 million for serious failings that allowed rogue trader Kweku Adoboli to rack up £1.4 billion in losses from unauthorised trading.

Bats Chi-X Europe seeks UK exchange license

Pan-European trading platform Bats Chi-X Europe is in talks with the UK's Financial Services Authority about becoming a registered exchange, according to press reports.

FSA fines Bank of Scotland over costly legacy computer lash-up

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Bank of Scotland (BOS) £4.2 million for computer system failures which meant it held inaccurate mortgage records for 250,000 of its customers. As a result of the failings, the bank mistakenly made £20.4 million in goodwill payments to some customers who did not deserve the cash bonanza.

Libor reform sparks market data tender scramble

Market data firms and index compilers are set to go to tender for the right to administer a souped-up version of the tainted London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor).

FSA fines BlackRock unit £9.5m for putting client money at risk

BlackRock Investment Management (UK) (BIM) has been fined £9.53 million by the FSA after errors caused by systems changes put client money at risk.

FSA selects Nasdaq OMX market surveillance technology

The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has signed for Nasdaq OMX's Smarts Integrity market surveillance system to help monitor transaction reports.

Australian and UK regulators warn on crowdfunding risks

Australian and UK watchdogs have both warned of the potential financial and regulatory risks for participants involved in the fast-growing crowdfunding sector.

FSA warns banks on old tech, slow payments and failure to engage with customers

British banks must start treating their customers better, according to FSA managing director Martin Wheatley, who accuses the industry of dragging its feet on issues such as prompt payments processing.