706 results about this entity
Period: 02 Sep 2004 - 16 Jul 2024
News
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
The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) is urging banks and asset management companies to step up their preparations for the implementation of the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), which the watchdog says is now likely to come into force on 1 November 2007.
21 November 2005
The UK's Financial Services Authority has repeated a warning that organised gangs of criminals are infiltrating British banks in order to carry out large-scale frauds.
16 November 2005
Large financial firms in the City of London are to be given access to priority telephone networks following the terrorist bombings on 7 July.
02 November 2005
The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published a discussion paper to examine whether there is a need for greater pre- or post-trade price information in the secondary bond markets.
05 September 2005
The head of the UK's Financial Services Authority has launched a stinging attack on the European Union's new investment services directive, which he claims will impose significant costs in return for questionable benefits.
22 July 2005
The London Stock Exchange ordered all market participants to switch off their algorithmic trading systems in an effort to relieve downward pressure on pricing following Thursday's bomb attacks in central London.
11 July 2005
The UK's Financial Services Authority has fined Citigroup £13.9 million following its investigation into the bank's controversial trading in the European government bond and bond derivative markets last August.
28 June 2005
The UK's Financial Services Authority is tendering for a supplier to upgrade its Sabre IT system, which monitors trading activity in the City.
20 June 2005
The UK's Financial Services Authority has appointed Deloitte to conduct research among regulated companies into the cost of compliance with financial regulation.
20 May 2005
The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned that shifting call centres and back office operations to offshore centres poses a serious risk to the watchdog's objectives of reducing financial crime and maintaining consumer protection and market confidence.
06 May 2005
The Financial Services Authority has been savaged by City business leaders in a brutal attack on the UK watchdog's "heavy-handed" compliance regime.
04 March 2005
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