Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

792 results about this entity

Period: 02 Sep 2004 - 18 Jul 2025

Technology, not regulation, key to fighting insider trading - survey

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.

Commerzbank hit with FSA fine for two-year transaction reporting failures

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.

FSA slaps £4.2 million fines on three firms for transaction reporting breaches

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Credit Suisse, Getco and Instinet a total of £4.2 million for transaction reporting failures.

FSA wants firms to tape mobile phone calls

The Financial Services Authority is proposing new rules that would require banks and securities firms to tape and record staff mobile phone calls as part of a concerted crackdown on insider dealing.

SEC to build IT Forensics Lab

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is to build a new 'state-of-the-art IT Forensics Lab' after admitting that successive technology budget cuts between 2005 and 2007 severely constrained its ability to effectively police the markets.

UBS plans European dark pool

Swiss bank UBS is planning to launch a dark pool multilateral trading facility (MTF) for crossing orders in European stocks.

FSA and police find boiler room 'master list'

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) and City of London Police have uncovered a 'master list' of 10,000 UK names circulating among boiler room share fraudsters.

New UK bank starts fundraising

A new bank, called Walton & Co, could enter the UK market by the end of the year, with fundraising efforts underway to secure £200 million to kickstart the project, according to press reports.

FSA set to license new UK start-up bank - FT

UK financial regulators are set to approve the opening of the country's first new start-up bank in a century according to the Financial Times.

Nomura fined £1.75 million for derivatives bookmarking failings

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Nomura International £1.75 million for "widespread systems and controls failings" around book marking within its International Equity Derivatives (IED) business.

Voice Commerce wins Payment Institution license from the FSA

Voice Commerce, the UK-based biometric payment verification group established by former RBS WorldPay founder Nick Ogden, has received authorisation from the Financial Services Authority to establish as a Payment Institution under the European Payment Services Directive (PSD).

FSA fast payout rules signal data management challenge for banks

The UK's Financial Services Authority has signaled a revision to its rule book that will require deposit takers to put in place appropriate systems to create and maintain a single customer view (SCV) to ensure fast payouts under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.