Tag: Financial Conduct Authority
UK: FCA wants global effort to speed up fintech innovation
Christopher Woolard, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Executive Director of Strategy and Competition, delivered a keynote speech on March 19 at the Innovate...
UK: Watchdog fines ex-Deutsche Bank trader over Libor
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has fined ex-Deutsche Bank trader Guillaume Adolph £180,000 (US$249,000) for “improperly influencing” quotes used for the Libor interest rate benchmark...
UK and US regulators team up for fintech innovation
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced Monday, February 19, that they had inked a deal...
UK: FCA probes four top fund firms over competition breaches
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a statement of objections to Artemis Investment Management, Hargreave Hale, Newton Investment Management and River & Mercantile...
UK: Half of adults are financially vulnerable, watchdog finds
Half of the UK population are financially vulnerable with one in six people unable to cope with a £50 increase in monthly bills, according...
UK: Investment consultants to face competition probe by FCA
The UK’s antitrust body will carry out a full-blown competition probe into investment consultants after the financial watchdog found far-reaching problems in an industry...
UK: Investment consultants plan to fight competition probe
The world’s biggest investment consultants plan to fight against a full-blown competition probe in the UK after the country’s financial watchdog suggested their proposed...
UK: Watchdog launches antitrust investigation of aviation broking
The UK financial watchdog has launched a sprawling antitrust investigation into the aviation broking sector, raiding several of the largest players as part of...
UK: Watchdog proposes IPO shake-up to level playing field
Giving investors independent research on stock flotations earlier will help keep Britain's global financial centre competitive in the face of Brexit uncertainty, a senior...
Decision-Making Powers and Institutional Design in Competition Cases: The Application of...
Jackie Holland, Aurora Luoma, Sep 11, 2014
In the United Kingdom various sectoral regulators have concurrent power to apply EU and U.K. competition law alongside...