713 results about this entity
Period: 02 Sep 2004 - 14 Aug 2024
News
Leading industry lobby groups have criticised proposals from the Financial Services Authority for the use of price benchmarks to demonstrate best execution in OTC and fixed income markets.
17 July 2006
The Financial Services Authority is to tell the European Commission that it sees no reason for extending MiFID transparency requirements to the UK's secondary bond markets.
05 July 2006
The UK's Financial Services Authority has signed a deal to access credit data pricing services from Markit in an effort to step up surveillance of the opaque OTC markets.
03 July 2006
The UK financial services industry spends about £600 million a year dealing with regulatory red tape, according to a report published by the Financial Services Authority.
29 June 2006
The Financial Services Authority has stated that UK-listed firms would not have to comply with Sarbanes Oxley and other US regulations if the London Stock Exchange is bought out by an American company, but cautions LSE stakeholders against future compliance headaches in a combined group.
12 June 2006
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is relaxing regulations on the training and competence (T&C) of staff working in wholesale financial services firms despite its earlier warnings that organised gangs of criminals are infiltrating British banks to commit large scale frauds.
07 March 2006
"Insider fraud" is one of the most serious threats faced by financial services firms, says the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) in a critical report on industry fraud protection practices.
27 February 2006
The majority of consumers (77%) would stop using Web banking services altogether if they were forced to foot the bill for online fraud, according to research commissioned by The Financial Services Authority (FSA) which is calling on banks to do more to educate customers about Internet security in order to stem losses.
23 January 2006
The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to urge banks and businesses in the City to devise contingency plans to deal with a possible bird flu pandemic.
16 January 2006
The UK's largest financial insitutions have "highly resilient" IT systems that could recover critical functions quickly after a terrorist attack or natural disaster, but firms could still be at risk because too many back-up sites are located in London, says the Financial Services Authority.
14 December 2005
Stung by criticism that it operates an overly prescriptive compliance regime, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published plans to reduce the cost and burden of regulations on UK firms.
02 December 2005
Britain's financial sector is conducting a market-wide business continuity test today that will assess firms' readiness for dealing with a major crisis such as a natural disaster or a terrorist attack.
28 November 2005
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