742 results about this entity
Period: 02 Sep 2004 - 26 Nov 2024
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The UK's Financial Services Authority is proposing to redraft its rules on soft commission payments between brokers and fund managers to expressly prohibit the bundling of electronic information and automated execution services in return for research and other services.
11 September 2006
The Futures and Options Association (FOA) is calling for the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) to drop controversial proposals for the use of price benchmarks to demonstrate best execution in dealer markets.
05 September 2006
The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has awarded a multi-year contract to overhaul its information systems (IS) division to a joint bid from Capgemini, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Xansa.
18 August 2006
A group of 11 UK trade associations have banded together to influence the way the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is implemented following fears that City regulators could take an "overly stringent approach" to the new measures, says the FT.
16 August 2006
Plans to harmonise disclosure rules for large stock trades under the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) could end up reducing the transparency of the London stock market, says the UK's Financial Services Authority.
01 August 2006
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
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