Search Results for: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
New Bank Start-up Unit launched by the financial regulators
January 22nd, 2016
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and FCA have launched the New Bank Start-up Unit. The Unit is a joint initiative from the UK’s financial regulators giving information and support to newly authorised banks and those thinking of becoming a ...
Foreign exchange manipulation: FINMA issues six industry bans
December 17th, 2015
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA has issued industry bans of between one and five years against six managers and traders formally employed in the UBS foreign exchange and precious metals business. FINMA concluded that the individuals in ...
Banks May Get Extra Time to Soften Up EU Financial-Market Rules
November 11th, 2015
European Commission considers postponing MiFID II start date Delay isn’t set in stone, European Parliament’s Ferber says Financial companies pushing back against Europe’s post-crisis market rule book for the past five years may get more time to chip away ...
FCA‘s Project Innovate celebrates first anniversary with plans for ‘regulatory sandbox’
November 10th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published plans for implementing a ‘regulatory sandbox’. The sandbox will allow businesses to test out new, innovative financial products, services or business models without incurring all the normal regulatory consequences of engaging in ...
MFSA Warning: COSMIC FINANCIAL SERVICES (MALTA) LIMITED
November 4th, 2015
In terms of article 4(1)(c) of the Malta Financial Services Authority Act, one of the MFSA’s functions is to keep the general public informed of important developments in the sector that it regulates, and to provide the public with ...
FCA bans former UBS senior trader from any regulated financial activity
October 19th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) bans Kweku Mawuli Adoboli from the financial services industry FCA UK, the financial regulatory authority of UK, has issued a press release to inform that: Following convictions on 20 November 2012 of two counts ...
The FMA publishes first annual report under the new regulatory regime
October 2nd, 2015
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) 2015 annual report marks a turning point for the FMA and for New Zealand’s financial markets. This is the first report published under the fully implemented Financial Markets Conduct (FMC) Act and highlights activity ...
Activist investor takes 6% stake in LPL Financial, sending stock higher
September 23rd, 2015
Marcato Capital says shares of the independent broker-dealer are undervalued at current levels An activist hedge fund investor on Tuesday afternoon said it had taken a 6.3% stake in LPL Financial Holdings Inc., sending the independent broker-dealer’s stock price ...
FINRA Fines StockCross Financial Services, Inc. $800,000 for Regulation SHO Violations
August 14th, 2015
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined StockCross Financial Services, Inc. $800,000 for Regulation SHO violations and for related supervisory violations that spanned more than three years. As part of the sanctions, StockCross is ...
FINRA Orders Wells Fargo, Raymond James, and LPL Financial to Pay More Than $30 Million
July 7th, 2015
FINRA Orders Wells Fargo, Raymond James, and LPL Financial to Pay More Than $30 Million in Restitution to Retirement Accounts and Charities Overcharged for Mutual Funds The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has ordered Wells ...
