01/07/2014

Royal Bank of Scotland hit with $50m fine

The subsidiary pleaded guilty last April to wire fraud and admitted its role in manipulating the Japanese Yen London interbank offered rate, or LIBOR.

01/06/2014

Regulatory predictions for 2014

Last year we offered our 13 regulatory reform predictions for 2013 and correctly predicted a year of intense rulemaking.

01/06/2014

Co-op Bank execs face BoE investigation

The launch of the investigation follows a two-month-long joint inquiry by the PRA and the FCA into the circumstances that led to the Co-op Bank’s troubles that will see the lender’s parent, the Co-op Group, give up control of the business to i

12/30/2013

FCA warns on boiler room graphene investments

We are receiving many reports from people who have been offered investments in graphene, which is a type of carbon that may one day be used in display screens, electrical circuits and batteries.

12/30/2013

DFSA Signs Agreements With Italian Regulators

CONSOB is the public authority responsible for regulating the Italian securities market and protecting the investing public. It also conducts investigations with respect to potential infringements of insider dealing and market manipulation law.

12/30/2013

Spain arrests eight over global bank cyber heists

The arrests are one of the biggest breakthroughs yet outside the United States in connection with a series of global bank heists, coordinated across numerous countries by cells which withdrew millions of dollars in a matter of hours.

12/28/2013

SFO plans fightback in 2014

The reality is that every case the SFO does is make or break. 2014 will be about putting the past behind us