The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been fined £5,620,300 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for incorrectly reporting transactions it made in wholesale markets and, in some instances, failing to report transactions at all.
Three British men who ran an international organised crime gang that conned UK investors out of £80m have been jailed for a total of 43 years by a US judge.
Auditors of some of Britain's biggest companies should have to re-apply for the tender at least every five years, the Competition Commission has recommended, as part of a probe examining the dominance of the ‘big four' accountancy groups.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined a US-based oil trader £600,000 for market manipulation.
Barclays has been fined $453m (£300m) by US regulators for allegedly manipulating energy prices.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is looking into claims traders intentionally pushed up the price of government bonds before attempting to sell them to the Bank of England (BoE) in 2011.
Law firm Eversheds has criticised the proposal by business secretary Vince Cable to introduce a new corporate law to punish directors of failed companies.