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Merrill Lynch fined £34.5 million for failures under EMIR
October 24th, 2017
Merrill Lynch International (MLI) has been fined £34,524,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to report 68.5 million exchange traded derivative transactions between 12 February 2014 and 6 February 2016. This is the first enforcement action against ...
London police raided 20 offices as part of a crackdown on binary options fraud
October 20th, 2017
The City of London Police has issued a press release to inform that conducted a day of action and visited 20 offices to speak with businesses to help build an intelligence picture around Binary Options and other types of ...
Former top Executives of one of the world’s largest metals and mining corporations charged with fraud
October 18th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged mining company Rio Tinto and two former top executives with fraud for inflating the value of coal assets acquired for $3.7 billion and sold a few years later for $50 million. The SEC’s ...
FCA finalises revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) requirements
September 19th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published its approach to implementing the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). PSD2 is an EU Directive which sets requirements for firms that provide payment services, and will affect banks and building societies, ...
Former Tesco executives set to appear in court on fraud charges
September 4th, 2017
Three former Tesco executives will appear in court, charged with fraud relating to the supermarket’s 2014 accounting scandal. The three men were charged by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) last September, and pleaded not guilty to the charges at ...
Bats Europe Approved as an APA Under MiFID II
August 30th, 2017
Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. company and the region’s largest equities exchange operator, today announced it received approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on 24 August 2017 to operate its trade reporting facility as an Approved ...
Upper Tribunal upholds the FCA’s decision to fine and ban former CEO of adviser network
August 10th, 2017
On 8 August 2017, the Upper Tribunal upheld the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) decision to ban Charles Palmer, former CEO of Financial Limited and Investments Limited (“the Firms”), from performing FCA significant influence functions. The Tribunal also upheld the ...
FCA published the findings from the 2017 survey of FCA-regulated firms
August 4th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the FCA Practitioner Panel have published the findings from their 2017 survey of FCA-regulated firms. The survey gives a view across the financial services sector of the FCA’s performance as a regulator. It ...
FCA UK sets out scope of Investment Platforms Market Study
July 17th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published the Terms of Reference for the Investment Platforms Market Study, which sets out the scope and topics that will be covered. Investment platforms are increasingly used by consumers and financial advisers ...
NEX SEF Limited went live
July 7th, 2017
NEX Group plc (“NEX”) (NXG.L), a financial technology company at the centre of global markets, announces that its Swap Execution Facility (“SEF”), NEX SEF Limited (“NEX SEF”), went live on 3 July 2017. NEX SEF received approval from the ...
