820 results about this entity
Period: 02 Sep 2004 - 24 Nov 2025
News
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.
28 March 2013
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.
27 March 2013
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.
13 March 2013
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.
29 January 2013
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.
26 November 2012
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.
08 November 2012
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.
19 October 2012
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).
28 September 2012
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.
11 September 2012
The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has signed for Nasdaq OMX's Smarts Integrity market surveillance system to help monitor transaction reports.
10 September 2012
Australian and UK watchdogs have both warned of the potential financial and regulatory risks for participants involved in the fast-growing crowdfunding sector.
14 August 2012
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.
04 May 2012
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