The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published Decision Notices in respect of One Call Insurance Services Limited (One Call) and its Chief Executive and majority shareholder John Lawrence Radford. A connected company to One Call, One Insurance Limited (OIL), has made a reference to the Upper Tribunal (the Tribunal) as a third party in…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that it has imposed a financial penalty of £250,000 on former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) interest rate derivatives trader, Neil Danziger, and prohibited him from performing any function in relation to any regulated financial activity. Mr Danziger formerly worked at RBS trading products referenced to Japanese Yen (JPY)…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) informed that it has today fined Tejoori Limited (Tejoori) £70,000 for failing to inform the market of inside information as required by Article 17(1) of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). This is the first fine the FCA has imposed on an AIM company for late disclosure following the introduction of…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) informed that it has imposed on Paul Walter, a former Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Limited (BAML) bond trader, a financial penalty of £60,090 for engaging in market abuse. Following an investigation, the FCA found that Mr Walter, an experienced trader, engaged in market abuse by creating a false…
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Merrill Lynch International (MLI) has been fined £34,524,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to report 68.5 million exchange traded derivative transactions between 12 February 2014 and 6 February 2016. This is the first enforcement action against a firm for failing to report details of trading in exchange traded derivatives, under the European…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that it has banned Mrs Colette Chiesa and Mr John Chiesa from working in financial services for integrity failings. Additionally, Mrs Chiesa has been fined £50,000 for attempting to mislead the FCA during an FCA interview. Mr and Mrs Chiesa were founding partners of Westwood Independent Financial Planners…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned and imposed financial penalties on two former Worldspreads Limited (WSL) employees. WSL, which operated a spread betting business, collapsed in March 2012. The FCA has fined WSL’s former Chief Financial Officer, Niall O’Kelly, £11,900 and former Financial Controller, Lukhvir Thind, £105,000, for engaging in market abuse and permanently…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Deutsche Bank AG £163,076,224 for failing to maintain an adequate anti-money laundering (AML) control framework during the period between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2015. This is the largest financial penalty for AML controls failings ever imposed by the FCA, or its predecessor the Financial Services Authority…
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The Financial Conduct Authority has published a Decision Notice in respect of Alistair Burns, Chief Executive at TailorMade Independent Limited (TMI). Mr Burns has referred this Decision Notice to the Upper Tribunal (the Tribunal) where he and the FCA will each present their case. The Decision Notice, which reflects the FCA’s view of what occurred…
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