Three of the big High Street banks have been so swamped by complaints from customers who were mis-sold payment protection insurance that the regulator has been forced to give them more time to work through the backlog... more
When the Financial Services Authority wins an insider-dealing case, fines a firm or bans an individual from working in the City, it does so in a blaze of publicity. The press releases are pumped out. Quotes from Margaret Cole, the chief enforcer, are spread across the newspapers... more
City Index, the spread-betting firm owned by former Tory party treasurer and City bigwig Michael Spencer, has been fined £490,000 for failing to report some two million trades accurately... more
Scottish Equitable is fined £2.8 million and ordered to pay £60 million compensation to thousands of customers for multiple failures over the past nine years... more
The City watchdog is contacting more than 49,000 people to warn them that their names were on a list being used by fraudsters trying to sell worthless shares... more
The FSA moves to beef up its board by appointing Margaret Cole, the heavyweight head of enforcement and financial crime at the City regulator, to its executive team... more
The chief City watchdog has opened preliminary enquiries into unusual share dealings in Dana Petroleum before and after the £1.87 billion hostile takeover bid received from Korean state oil firm Knoc... more
Three Turkish oil executives are fined more than £1 million for market abuse, the largest punishment dished out by the Financial Services Authority for insider trading... more
The Financial Services Authority hits Standard Life with a £2.45 million fine for “serious failings” after it misled 100,000 investors about the safety of one of its pension funds... more
Toronto Dominion Bank was hit by the fourth-largest fine by the Financial Services Authority after a London rogue trader cost it more than £50 million... more
Insider traders, market manipulators and financial fraudsters face much bigger fines in the future under new plans revealed by the City watchdog today ... more
One of Warren Buffett's former top executives in the UK was banned for life from working in the financial services industry after a near four-year campaign by the Financial Services Authority... more
Regulation: The Financial Services Authority has imposed a record number of fines this year, with mortgage fraud high on the list of offences targeted... more
Enforcement: The Financial Services Authority, have slapped a £1.12 million fine on one of the country's largest providers of subprime mortgages in a clear message to the industry that it expects it to sharpen up its act... more
A report yesterday claimed the number of women in top jobs had fallen. But Antonia Cox argues not all women want to enter the corporate battlefield... more
A UK network of home-loan arrangers owned by French financial giant Axa is fined almost £1m after an investigation into the mis-selling of subprime mortgages... more
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