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UK’s financial regulator warns for unauthorised and clone firms
August 16th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s financial regulator regulator for 56,000 financial services firms and financial markets in the UK and the prudential regulator for over 18,000 of those firms, has issued announcements to warn investors and public ...
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 outlines proposals to extend the Senior Managers and Certification Regime to all financial services firms
July 28th, 2017
In October 2015, HM Treasury announced its intention to extend the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) to all sectors of the financial services industry. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published proposals to extend the SM&CR to almost ...
Why free trade and open markets in financial services matter; Andrew Bailey, FCA Chief Executive
July 11th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, has released a speech by Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the FCA, at Reuters Newsmaker event. According the release: Note: this ...
FCA secures eight confiscation orders totalling almost £2.2 million
May 24th, 2017
The Central Criminal Court has made confiscation orders against the two final defendants who were convicted of offences following one of the FCA’s largest investigations into unauthorised activity. The FCA’s investigation, known as Operation Cotton, led to eight convictions ...
UK investment management firm with approximately 3000 customers entered the SAR insolvency proceedings
May 18th, 2017
Strand Capital Limited (Strand), an investment management firm, formally entered the Special Administration Regime (SAR) insolvency proceedings on 17 May 2017. Having reached an assessment that it was no longer solvent, Strand made an application to the court to ...
The regulatory authorities of Hong Kong and UK sign Fintech cooperation agreement
May 15th, 2017
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today entered into a cooperation agreement with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to foster collaboration in support of financial technology (Fintech) innovation (Note 1). Under the agreement, the SFC and the FCA ...
FCA warns about ExxonFX
May 11th, 2017
The FCA UK has issued a press release to inform that the below firm has been providing financial services or products in the UK without its authorisation. Almost all firms and individuals offering, promoting or selling financial services or ...
FCA warns for a clone of ADS Securities
April 26th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning about a clone of ADS Securities and informs investors and public that fraudsters are using the details of firms the FCA authorises to try to convince people that they work ...
