Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

818 results about this entity

Period: 02 Sep 2004 - 17 Nov 2025

UK and Swiss watchdogs launch formal investigations into UBS over trading scandal

UK and Swiss regulators have launched formal proceedings against UBS over the £2.3 billion unauthorised trading loss made at the bank last year.

UK banks wage cyber war games

UK banks are participating in a war games-style market exercise to test their responses to a concerted cyber attack and the threats posed to their business by traffic gridlock at the 2012 Olympics.

Ex-City minister calls for HFT probe

After a week of extreme market volatility, former City minister Lord Myners has called on the UK government to investigate high-frequency trading.

LSE buys FSA's Transaction Reporting Service

The London Stock Exchange has agreed a £15 million cash deal to buy the Financial Services Authority's Transaction Reporting Service (TRS).

Banks found to be putting profits before risk in FSA money laundering review

The Financial Services Authority is ready to launch a crack-down on bank anti-money laundering practices after finding serious weaknesses in banks' systems and controls and a willingness to turn a blind eye to profitable business relationships with high-risk customers and regimes.

UK banks breaching data protection rules - Which?

The UK's biggest banks and building societies are regularly breaching data protection rules, according to figures obtained by consumer group Which? under the Freedom of Information Act.

LCH.Clearnet and X-Clear get FSA approval for interoperability

European clearing house interoperability has moved a step nearer after the UK's FSA approved new arrangements between LCH.Clearnet and Switzerland's X-Clear.

As FSA deadline looms, TeleWare unveils mobile call recording system

Teleware has launched a 'clientless' mobile call recording system designed to help financial services firms meet FSA rules set to come into effect later this year.

FSA paper trail hampering compliance activities - CISI

The Financial Services Authority is bombarding member firms with so much written material that it is hampering compliance activities, according to a survey conducted by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI).

FSA not interested in trawling through algo code

The UK's Financial Services Authority has no intention of "looking through lines of code" before signing off algorithms used by high-frequency traders, describing the prospect, floated by the European Commission, as a "bad idea".

CPP loses Barclaycard business over FSA investigation

Shares in CPP, a provider of credit card insurance and identity theft protection, plummeted yesterday after Barclaycard decided to stop using some of its services because of an FSA investigation.

O2 seeks UK license for mobile money play

O2 is set to join the growing band of telcos bidding to grab a slice of the mobile payments market when it applies to the UK's FSA for an e-money license later this year.