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FCA doubles interventions in 2014
January 5th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) doubled the number of times it intervened to force firms to change their practices in 2014. The FCA made 31 ‘early interventions’ – which are done without a lengthy official investigation – in 2014 ...
FCA warning against unauthorised firm
January 3rd, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British regulator, has issued a warning against “FXGL Capital” (www.fxglcapital.com). The warning recommends that the public exercises extreme caution when dealing with this company, since is not permitted to provide any financial services or ...
FCA to regulate seven additional financial benchmarks
December 30th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will regulate seven additional major UK-based financial benchmarks in the fixed income, commodity and currency markets from 1 April 2015. This extends the FCA’s initial regulation of LIBOR (the London Interbank Offered Rate), as ...
FCA warning against unauthorised firm
December 17th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British regulator, has issued a warning against “Keystone Corporate Group” (www.keystonecorporategrp.com). The warning recommends that the public exercises extreme caution when dealing with this company, since is not permitted to provide any financial ...
FCA warning against clone firm
December 16th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the United Kingdom has issued a warning to alert all recipients that: Artemis Fund Managers (clone of FCA authorised firm) Address: Cassini House, 152 City Road, London EC1V 2NX Email: complaints@artemisfundmanagers.com Website: www.artemisfundmanagers.com is NOT authorised under the ...
Watchdog reshuffle: Zitah McMillan and Victoria Raffe set to leave FCA ahead of Davis report
December 9th, 2014
A drastic shakeup of top positions at the City’s main financial watchdog was announced yesterday, ahead of tomorrow’s release of a damning report on failings at the regulator. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) confirmed that executives Zitah McMillan and ...
FCA: New rules will protect consumers from harmful fee-charging credit broking practices
December 1st, 2014
New rules have been introduced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today to tackle poor practice in the credit broking market which is causing serious detriment to consumers. The rules will ban credit brokers from charging fees to customers, ...
FCA fines RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank Ltd £42 million for IT failures
November 20th, 2014
The FCA has taken this action against the Banks for failing to put in place resilient IT systems which could withstand, or minimise the risk of, IT failures. The actual cause of the IT incident was a software compatibility ...
FCA warning against unauthorised firms
November 13th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British regulator, has issued a warning against: ‘Ignite Boilers Limited’ (Address: 138 Barcombe Road, London SW2 3BB) ‘Aberdeen Trust’ (www.aberdeentrust.com), ‘Capital Resource Development Company’ (www.crdevelopmentcompany.com ) The warning recommends that the public exercises ...
FCA warning against clone firm
November 12th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the United Kingdom has issued a warning to alert all recipients that: Kingsley Asset Management (clone of FCA authorised firm) Address: Hyde House, The Hyde, London, NW9 6LH (clone of FCA authorised firm), Unit 1, 47 ...
