The Financial Services Authority on Monday fined HSBC £10.5 million for selling inappropriate financial products to elderly customers, the largest British penalty related to a retail product. [read post]
Standard Chartered, which has thrived so far during Europe's debt crisis, faces costly fines in an investigation of its financial dealings with Iran. [read post]
The Financial Services Authority, Britain's financial regulator, said on Monday that Will Samuel had been appointed a senior adviser in its investment banking supervisory unit. [read post]
The relationship between regulators and banks came under scrutiny on Monday when senior officials from the Financial Services Authority of Britain testified before a parliamentary committee about the rate-rigging scandal. [read post]
RIT Capital Partners, the investment trust chaired by Jacob Rothschild, has agreed to buy a minority stake in the investment and wealth management firm Rockefeller Financial Services. [read post]
Republican lawmakers implored financial regulators to exempt airlines, manufacturers and other nonfinancial companies from new rules governing derivatives trading. [read post]
Ahead of a British parliamentary hearing, executives said they thought they had implicit approval from regulators to manipulate interest rates. [read post]
Ahead of a British parliamentary hearing, executives said they thought they had implicit approval from regulators to manipulate interest rates. [read post]
The Financial Services Authority, the British securities regulator soon to be folded into the Bank of England, released a new set of rules for compensation Thursday, vastly expanding the number of companies for which pay is regulated. [read post]
The Financial Services Authority has fined the Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company of Japan £3.3 million for poor corporate governance practices at the insurer's subsidiary based in London. [read post]
The Zurich Financial Services Group has agreed to pay $1.67 billion to Banco Santander of Spain for a majority stake in its Latin American insurance operations. [read post]
The largest hedge fund trade group plans to meet with British regulators about proposed rules on pay, saying it will push for "an appropriate and proportionate regime." [read post]
Ahead of a British parliamentary hearing, executives said they thought they had implicit approval from regulators to manipulate interest rates. [read post]
President Obama and Congress have vowed to enact the farthest-reaching overhaul of financial regulations since the Depression. The Times compares the bills in the House and Senate. [read post]
GMAC Financial Services, a lender majority-owned by the government, posted its first profit since the fourth quarter of 2008 as it starts to recover from billions of dollars lost on bad mortgages. [read post]
The private equity firm said on Friday it was abandoning its £508 million ($818 million) bid for GlobeOp Financial Services, leaving SS&C Technologies Holdings as the lead bidder. [read post]
Ian Hannam, JPMorgan's global chairman of equity capital markets, left the bank after British financial regulators fined him for disclosing inside information. [read post]