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This week at the UK regulators - 7 May 2013

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 7 2013

The FCA has remained active on all fronts during the past week. It has charged more individuals in connection with criminal investigations into

Dishonesty does not pay

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 14 2012

Fraud has been a common theme running through claims against small firms of solicitors and accountants since the 2008 financial collapse

Updated Financial Services Authority (“FSA”) financial crime guide

  • Pannone LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 2 2012

The FSA has four statutory objectives as set out in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000:

The rise and rise of liability fraud

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 24 2012

The financial impact of fraud has grown exponentially, costing the UK economy £73 billion per year

FSA update - 8 October 2012

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 8 2012

The FSA has (on 1 October) charged four individuals with conspiracy to commit insider dealing

FSA speaks on fraud

  • Dentons
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • September 21 2012

Bob Ferguson has spoken on “beating the fraudster”, with specific reference to insurance fraud

The long arm of FSA

  • Dentons
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 8 2012

Recent actions by FSA against firms with overseas head offices, and approved persons working in those firms, should sound warning bells to all FSA-authorised firms with an international client base for whom a UK presence serves greater global needs

FSA bans and fines insurance broker

  • Dentons
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 27 2012

FSA has banned Stephen Goodwin, a former commercial insurance broker, and fined him £471,846, for using clients’ premium moneys to fund his business

Tough times, tough talk, tough regulator

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 4 2012

At the FSA’s final Enforcement Conference on Monday, Tracy McDermott, the acting director of the FSA’s Enforcement and Financial Crime Division, issued a scathing attack on the financial services industry and gave an indication as to the interventionist future planned for the FSA’s successor, the FCA

Fraud should not pay

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 8 2012

A Google search for “medical negligence claims” returned 2,200,000 results