706 results about this entity
Period: 02 Sep 2004 - 16 Jul 2024
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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).
03 May 2011
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".
12 April 2011
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 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.
03 February 2011
A former investment analyst has been fined £50,000 for using Bloomberg Instant Messenger to send "misleading and inaccurate disclosures" about a listed company, affecting its share price.
17 January 2011
The Financial Services Authority has fined Royal Bank of Scotland and its NatWest unit a total of £2.8 million for failing to deal properly with customer complaints.
11 January 2011
The Financial Services Authority has given Chicago-based derivatives exchange operator CME Group the green light to start clearing OTC trades in Europe early next year.
17 December 2010
The UK's Financial Services Authority is set to make investment banks record and store traders' mobile phone calls despite industry opposition to the move which could cost more than £10,000 a handset a year.
12 November 2010
A UK Member of Parliament has launched a bid to "save" the cheque, which the Payments Council is planning to ditch in 2018.
03 November 2010
News of a multi-million dollar agreement with the Financial Services Authority has failed to arrest a slide in the share price of search and discovery software house Autonomy that was triggered by a recent revision to its sales guidance and a downgrade note from a former staffer turned Deutsche Bank analyst.
13 October 2010
Tesco's ambition to build a full service banking operation has suffered a setback after the Financial Services Authority delayed giving the supermarket clearance to offer mortgages, according to the Observer.
04 October 2010
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) plans to shake up its complaints handling rules after revealing that more than 7000 gripes against high street banks are lodged every day, with Lloyds topping the league of shame.
30 September 2010
Société Générale has been fined £1.575 million by the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to hand over accurate transaction reports.
25 August 2010
Zurich Insurance's UK arm has been hit with a record £2.275 million fine from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over the loss of a backup data tape containing the details of 46,000 customers.
24 August 2010
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been fined £5.6 million by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for IT systems failures that could have resulted in terrorist financing.
03 August 2010
An oil trader who bought seven million barrels of crude in the early hours after "extremely heavy drinking" has been banned and fined by the FSA.
30 June 2010
The FSA says financial firms must ensure they provide appropriate risk warnings when using new media such as social networking sites, blogs and forums to promote products and services.
15 June 2010
FaceTime Communications has upgraded its Web gateway for firms looking to monitor and control employee content posted to blogs, wikis and social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
19 May 2010
Insider trading is a systemic risk that is largely immune to regulation and instead needs to be tackled culturally and technologically, according to a survey of UK market players by MPI Europe.
28 April 2010
Germany's Commerzbank has been fined £595,000 by the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to provide accurate transaction reports used to fight insider trading.
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