03/26/2014
Santander UK fined £12.4m for widespread investment advice failings
Santander has claimed no customers suffered detriment as a result of its advice
03/26/2014
Santander has claimed no customers suffered detriment as a result of its advice
03/26/2014
Pawnbroker ruined by reckless expansion and the fall in the gold price calls in PriceWaterhouseCoopers
03/26/2014
UBS AG suspended foreign-exchange traders in the U.S., Singapore and Switzerland as its investigation into the alleged rigging of currency markets widened.
03/25/2014
One of Britain’s biggest banks has cost victims of the payment protection insurance scandal tens of millions of pounds by wrongly cutting their compensation awards
03/25/2014
Record-Breaking Financial Penalties Exposes Need for Conduct Risk Framework and Clearer Understanding of FCA Expectations within Businesses
03/25/2014
Tan argued that the British had no jurisdiction over the 15-year-long marriage
03/25/2014
Sturgeon was the first regulatory incubator in the institutional space in the UK and we are leading the way once again by offering a full AIF service in Europe
03/25/2014
The European Central Bank could buy loans and other assets from banks to help support the euro zone economy
03/25/2014
The European Central Bank’s determination to subject the euro zone’s largest banks to the same, rigorous checks is being tested, with countries lobbying for their banks to be treated differently and lenders asking for their workload to be ease
03/24/2014
C Hoare & Co has alerted customers to the ploy and urged them to tighten security as it strengthens its own defences.
03/24/2014
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has is about to kickstart the hunt for a London corproate head with former Asia managing partner Simon Marchant and deal-maker Julian Makin emerging as early frontrunners.
03/24/2014
Will bankers never learn? Not commercial bankers who played a major role in wrecking the economy, this time the regulators are embarking on the slippery path of greed and promises of a honey pot of bonus payments.
03/24/2014
Regulatory pressures on advisers to ensure investment recommendations are suitable for clients, particularly from a risk point of view, has resulted in a number of risk-rated, risk-targeted and risk-managed solutions appearing on the market.
03/24/2014
Fiona Le Poidevin explains why Guernsey provides an excellent platform for AIFMD compliant investments in Europe with all the options available to a financial centre outside the EU.
03/24/2014
Hedge funds manage $470 billion in the UK, with 82% of the assets controlled by just 20 large firms
03/24/2014
Subsequently Russia completed its annexation of Crimea and the European Union issued further sanctions against more Russian and Crimean politicians and officials by supplementing CFSP 145 and Regulation 269 (under new Council Decision 2014/151/CFSP and Co
03/24/2014
German state prosecutors have searched the Frankfurt offices of law firm Hengeler Mueller in connection with Deutsche Bank's 12-year legal battle with the heirs of media mogul Leo Kirch
03/24/2014
Execution-only platform Fidelity Personal Investing is calling for an outright ban on exit fees from all long-term savings products, and has promised to refund customers hit by the fees who move to its platform.
03/24/2014
Three officials are sued over an alleged concealment of their wealth by the High Inspectorate of Declaration and Audit of Assets.
03/23/2014
The chief executives of some of Britain’s biggest life insurers have asked regulators to intervene after the Chancellor’s announcement of dramatic changes to the pensions market