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France24 (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
To discuss about the Dubai crisis and financial regulation, Raphael Kahane met Lord Adair Turner, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority (UK market regulator) at the British Embassy in Paris.
Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today published the summarised feedback it received on whether to extend its code on remuneration policies to other FSA-authorised firms. The FSA's remuneration code comes into force for large banks, building societies and broker dealers on 1 January 2010. It will apply to any remuneration awards made by these firms for the 2009 performance...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Julia Werdigier reports from England: Paul A. Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve and an adviser to President Obama, told a room packed with banking executives on Tuesday to "wake up" to the need for more drastic regulatory changes. "Has there been one financial leader standing up and saying, ‘This is really excessive’?," Mr. Volcker asked about...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Howard Davies, former chairman of the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority, on Tuesday set out a string of regulatory reforms that he said may be needed to fix the banking industry, including closer scrutiny of new products launched by banks and much faster agreement on international standards.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
A County Antrim mortgage broker is banned by the Financial Services Authority for not being competent to run an authorised firm.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
A County Antrim mortgage broker is banned by the Financial Services Authority for not being competent to run an authorised firm.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Britain claims several lobbying victories after perceivedly losing out over choice of new commissioner EU finance ministers have tonight agreed an ambitious new pan-European system of market regulation aimed at taming excesses, minimising risk, and taking pre-emptive action to head off the kind of financial meltdown seen over the past 18 months. The new regime, which will centre around a Frankfurt-based...
Investigations (Free subscription) | yesterday
The City watchdog the Financial Services Authority has banned Aaron Nickols, trading as Warwick Finance, for not being fit and proper to run a mortgage and insurance business. His high pressure tactics included making unsolicited phone calls to the public,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Outlook No wonder bankers feel persecuted. Underlining their status as public enemy No 1, the Financial Services Authority yesterday released the findings of an inquiry into whether its new rules on bankers' pay should be extended to other firms it regulates. The answer, the FSA said, is no.
Corporate Law and Governance (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Financial Services Authority has today announced that its remuneration code - which comes into force for large banks, building societies and broker dealers on 1 January 2010 - will not be extended to other FSA authorised firms. For further information, see here .
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
LONDON, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the appointment of financial services industry veteran Otto E. Nageli as Chairman designate of CME Clearing Europe, CME Group's UK Clearing House currently awaiting approval by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON (Reuters) - The financial watchdog said on Tuesday it had no plans to alter existing curbs on bankers' bonuses and remuneration, or to extend them beyond the banking sector, until it reviews the rules in the middle of next year. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said on Tuesday holding back on change would allow regulators to assess the impact of EU changes and...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... were adopted." Bankers are warning that if the UK imposes a tax on bonuses when other major financial centres, such as New York, do not then the biggest stars might relocate from the City. Diamond, an American with British citizenship, has himself moved back to the US, after a decade working in the City, to oversee the expansion of Barclays Capital following the acquisition of the Wall...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
A currency exchange levy would work politically and morally for a debt-ridden, post-crisis world A global financial transactions tax may have seemed a utopian dream in the past. This was surprising, given that on a national level many countries have successfully implemented financial transactions taxes. Indeed, one of the most effective to date is the UK stamp duty on transactions of...
Insurance Daily (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
British Gas has plans to expand in the UK insurance market. According to a report in The Sunday Telegraph, the group’s ambitions include a listing among the UK’s top 10 insurance providers. The company, which is owned by Centrica and has a customer base of 4.5 million, has been granted Financial Services Authority approval to underwrite its [...]
