Regulation

The head of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) wants to raise salaries by 50% to put his staff on a par with those at the FSA, in a bid to stem a flow of departures and attract high-calibre recruits from private practice.

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has launched its second probe into bonus culture and invited financial service providers to submit their views.

The Insolvency Service has said there will be no proceedings taken against Stewart Ford and the other Keydata directors.

Hector Sants has said the Prudential Regulation Authority's approach towards banking supervision will fundamentally differ from past practices as he set out a more "intensive" blueprint based on forward looking judgements.

The Prudential Regulatory Authority - the new regulator taking over the supervision of big UK financial institutions in 2013 - should be charged with investigating bank failures and making its findings public, Hector Sants has said.

The FSA has fined the former compliance officer at a Forex brokerage £3,000 and banned him from holding a oversight function for failing to keep client seperate from the firm's.

The FSA may use the extra data it plans to collect from adviser firms to control the price of advice post-2012, Alan Lakey says.

Coming into power so soon after the financial crisis, regulation was high up the coalition government's agenda, and the Treasury wasted little time in setting the course for change.

The FSA has launched High Court proceedings against land banking operations accused of scamming investors out of £45m.

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