Insider trading

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined David Einhorn and his well known hedge fund Greenlight Capital £7.2m for trading on inside information in UK stock Punch Taverns in June 2009.

The Financial Services Authority has charged a 42-year-old with eight counts of insider dealing and two counts of money laundering.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have hammered out a common position on the euro debt crisis.

US hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam has been found guilty of making tens of millions of dollars from insider trading.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating whether Wall Street traders are using ETFs as a means of disguising insider trading.

A senior investment banker and former FSA approved person has today been sentenced to three years and four months in custody for insider trading.

Goldman Sachs is lifting the £1m bonus cap imposed on its 100 London-based partners last year as the firm begins to hand out multi-million pound payouts to staff around the world.

An investment banker, his wife and a close friend have pleaded guilty to eight counts of insider dealing in a case brought to court by the FSA.

The FSA has charged five individuals for insider dealing, adding to the 11 currently being prosecuted by the regulator.

City police have arrested a 64-year-old man as part of an insider dealing investigation.