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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedIn‘A Lighter Regulatory Touch’? FCA’s Enforcement Cases Plummet in FY 22/23
Enforcement actions by the UK financial watchdog slumped during the last financial year ended March 31, 2023. The number of cases opened against firms and individuals fell 67% and 33% to 26 and 74, respectively. Similarly, the number of closed cases against firms dropped 10% and against individuals decreased 44%. Overall, the UK Financial Conduct […]
‘Nowhere to hide’, UK’s new FCA enforcement co-head warns finance industry | Reuters
Companies in Britain that commit wrongdoing have “nowhere to hide” and will face “meaningful consequences”, a new enforcement co-head of Britain’s markets regulator warned on Thursday, as she started setting out her strategy for the first time. Therese Chambers, joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), warned firms […]
U.K. Regulator’s Enforcement Director to Step Down Next Year – WSJ
The executive director for enforcement and market oversight at the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority, which also supervises compliance by U.K. cryptocurrency firms with anti-money-laundering laws, said he would step down next spring, the agency said Tuesday. Mark Steward was appointed to his role at the finance regulator seven years ago. He was known for leading […]
UK regulator appoints new digital assets director to oversee crypto
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed the director of the multi-agency National Economic Crime Command (NECC) as its new director of payments and digital assets. The regulator announced the appointment of Matthew Long in a release on Tuesday, amid a raft of other senior moves. The role is newly-created and will oversee e-money, payment […]
UK’s FCA says it is ‘not capable’ of supervising crypto exchange Binance | Financial Times
The UK financial regulator has conceded it is “not capable” of properly supervising Binance despite the “significant risk” posed by the cryptocurrency exchange’s products, which allow consumers to take supercharged bets. In a supervisory notice two months after starting a crackdown on the exchange, the Financial Conduct Authority — one of the most influential financial […]
A Review of Financial Services Enforcement and Investigation in the UK | Insights | Linklaters
As the agency primarily responsible for the investigation of potential misconduct within the financial services sector in the UK, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) continues to investigate many diverse forms of suspected misconduct. While the number of cases under investigation by the FCA’s Enforcement Division continues to grow, there have been signs in the past […]
FCA bans insider trader 7 years after conviction – FTAdviser.com
The Financial Conduct Authority has banned a former equities dealer at Legal & General Investment Management seven years after he was sentenced to prison for insider trading. Paul Milsom pleaded guilty in January 2013 to insider dealing following a large-scale probe by the Financial Services Authority and two months later was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to two years imprisonment. […]
UK jury fails to reach verdict in insider trading case | Financial Times
The jury at London’s Southwark Crown Court was split in its deliberations over Fabiana Abdel-Malek, 36, and her friend, Walid Choucair, 39, whom the UK financial watchdog accused of five charges each in the first major case of insider trading to reach court in over two years. via UK jury fails to reach verdict in […]
FCA blocks Steven Cohen plan to relaunch UK hedge career – Citywire
US hedge fund manager Steven Cohen has had his application to open up his new fund to UK investors blocked by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) once again. via FCA blocks Steven Cohen plan to relaunch UK hedge career – Citywire.
Insider dealing has gone on unpunished, lawyers claim | The Times & The Sunday Times
Financial watchdogs have been distracted by benchmark rate manipulation and have taken their eyes off more run-of-the-mill cases of insider dealing, lawyers have said. Reacting to figures revealed by The Times on Friday showing that white-collar criminals had been acting with impunity, legal experts argued that the Financial Conduct Authority had sacrificed other investigations while […]