Regulation

A metal trader who was set to be fined and banned by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for market abuse will now only be censured after the intervention of the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber).

The FSA has obtained a High Court injunction against a number of companies and individuals who made more than £1m from manipulating the market in UK shares.

An adviser has spoken of his anger and confusion after an adjudicator from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) ruled he had given unsuitable advice to clients on insolvent investment firm Keydata - even though the FSA had previously deemed his recommendation...

The FSA has fined a Canadian trading platform £8m for serious market abuse but the firm has referred the matter to the Upper Tribunal.

The FSA is set to publish its first "health alert" shortly to warn about risky financial products, in a bid to halt the stream of mis-selling scandals.

Katherine Leaman, manager of the FSA's professional standards policy team, will leave the regulator and head to the private sector with a job at Royal Bank of Scotland.

Three men have been jailed for a total of 19 years for a boiler room scam which defrauded 1,700 investors of £27m, the FSA said today.

The FSA has pulled the plug on its series of regional TCF workshops due to regulatory reform.

The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has launched its inquiry into the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has completed its investigations into three investment frauds which lost hundreds of investors millions of pounds following a decision at Harrow Crown Court last week.