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- fsa Warns Mutual Lenders on Crunch
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - The financial watchdog warned building societies to do more to test their business models against extreme strains like the current liquidity crunch, with some still too slow to react to months of turmoil. The financial sector has been shaken by the near-collapse...
- News items 2008-05-07
- fsa Asks For Market Abuse Sanctions Speed Up
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - The financial watchdog is disappointed at the government's slowness in granting it new powers to combat market abuse, including the ability to grant immunity from prosecution in exchange for evidence, it said. Chancellor Alistair Darling said in March that the government...
- News items 2008-05-06
- UK Eyes Jail Sentences to Battle Insider Dealing
- By Clara Ferreira-Marques LONDON (Reuters UK) - The Financial Services Authority plans to use jail sentences and tougher fines to crack down on insider dealing, after data showed possible insider trade before over a quarter of takeovers last year, unimproved from 2006. Critics have long...
- News items 2008-04-29
- Kheraj to Advise fsa on Tighter Bank Supervision
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - The financial watchdog said on Wednesday it has appointed a former finance chief of Barclays (BARC) to advise it on how to tighten up its supervision of the banking industry following the near collapse of Northern Rock. Naguib Kheraj, Barclays' Group Finance...
- News items 2008-04-23
- fsa Says ID Fraud Underestimated
- By Jennifer Hill LONDON (Reuters UK) - Financial services companies must change their attitude to security to curb the rise in identity fraud, the City watchdog said on Thursday. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) issued the warning following a review of data security systems and controls...
- News items 2008-04-23
- Basel Bank Watchdog Plans Crackdown on Risk
- By Thomas Atkins ZURICH (Reuters) - The world's top bank regulator launched a crackdown on Wednesday in response to the global credit crunch, saying it aimed to raise the costs of complex debt securities and risky practices. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision...
- News items 2008-04-16
- Operational Risk Management Practices
- The FSA's Principles for Businesses include a requirement for adequate risk management systems. These include systems for managing Operational Risk (OR). This paper sets out the findings from the authors' review of OR management practices in eight firms. The purpose of this paper is to enhance industry awareness. The aim...
- White papers 2005-02-01
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- Building societies' systemsare too slack, says fsa chief
- The head of the Financial Services Authority criticised building societies yesterday for slack management and told them to overhaul their systems and governance if they are to withstand shocks from the credit crunch. In a wide-ranging speech full of stark warnings for the mutual lenders, Hector Sants,...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- fsa battles Mervyn King for right to pull plug on failing banks
- The Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority are engaged in a turf war over which regulator should decide when to take control of a failing bank, it emerged yesterday. In evidence to the Commons Treasury select committee, FSA officials insisted that they, as supervisors of...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Mimosa Announces Next-Generation File System Archiving That Enables Users to Lower Storage Costs, Expedite eDiscovery, and Alert Users When Sensitive Information is Detected
- Mimosa NearPoint File System Archiving Proactively Preserves Files Alongside Email and Instant Messages; Integrated Content Archive Addresses Critical Requirements for Storage Optimization, Information Access, eDiscovery, Compliance, and Recovery SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Mimosa Systems, a leader in live content archiving solutions, today unveiled Mimosa NearPoint[TM] File System Archiving...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Voting Rights and Capital
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In accordance with the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority's Disclosure (FSA's) and Transparency Rules, Sappi advises that its issued share capital comprises 239,071,892 ordinary shares of ZAR1.00 each. Of that number, the Company holds 10,029,511 shares in Treasury through a...
- Articles 2008-05-05
- Milliman Announces Webinar on Practical Uses of Lifestyle-Based Analytics in Risk Selection
- SEATTLE, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to its increasing potential as a tool in health insurance underwriting, Lifestyle-Based Analytics (LBA) continues to receive considerable attention from insurers and the media. We've probably all seen optimistic claims about the use of consumer data as a predictor in the underwriting...
- Articles 2008-05-05
- Let's call these 'advisers' what they are - salesmen
- The Retail Distribution Review sounds a classic bit of financial industry mumbo-jumbo. But in plain English, RDR is a study of how financial products are sold to the public. It is crucial because if change is carried out properly, it could help prevent future mis- selling scandals. ...
- Articles 2008-05-04
- picoChip President and CEO Appointed to Global Semiconductor Alliance Board of Directors
- Guillaume d'Eyssautier, President and CEO of picoChip, to serve on GSA board BATH, England -- picoChip today announced that the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA - formerly the FSA - Fables Semiconductor Association) has appointed Guillaume d'Eyssautier, its President and CEO, to the GSA Board of Directors. In addition...
- Articles 2008-04-30
- Royal Dutch Shell plc: Voting Rights and Capital
- LONDON, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In conformity with the Disclosure and Transparency Rules, we hereby notify the market of the following: Royal Dutch Shell plc's capital consists of 3,549,954,210 A shares and 2,745,665,057 B shares, each with voting rights. Royal Dutch Shell plc holds no...
- Articles 2008-04-30
- Benefits Expert Jim Edholm Re-Thinks Rising Health Care Costs in New Article in Industry Week
- "Health insurance costs are rising much fasterthan inflation," writes business benefits expert Jim Edholm in a recentedition of Industry Week Online. "But what can manufacturers do about it?" In "Manufacturers Can Use FSA, HRA and HSA Plans to Control HealthInsurance Premiums" Edholm, President of Business Benefits Insurance,explores the possibility --...
- Articles 2008-04-29
- Data tsar raises alarm at 'inexcusable' loss of personal information
- SECURITY The Government's Information Commissioner has expressed his concern at the rise in instances of personal data being lost by both private and public organisations. Richard Thomas said he knew of 94 serious losses of personal data, of which the information had been recovered...
- Articles 2008-04-27
- Former Barclays FD to join the fsa
- Business News IN BRIEF *Naguib Kheraj, the former Barclays finance director, is to join the Financial Services Authority, working with a new team set up after the collapse of Northern Rock. Mr Kheraj, who left Barclays last year after overseeing its bid for ABN Amro, will work...
- Articles 2008-04-24
- Rosenthal Collins Group and GAIN Capital Group Create Venture to Provide Online Forex and Futures Trading Services in the United Kingdom
- CHICAGO & BEDMINSTER, N.J. -- Rosenthal Collins Group, LLC (RCG), a leading independent futures clearing firm, and GAIN Capital Group LLC, a market leader in retail foreign exchange (forex) trading, today announced they are joining forces to establish operations in the United Kingdom. The new entity, to be known as...
- Articles 2008-04-23
- fsa Holdings Notification of Disclosure
- NEW YORK -- FSA Holdings has posted to its website an Investor's Overview intended primarily for fixed-income investors, which includes information previously disclosed for the year ended December 31, 2007, together with some related supplementary information. The presentation may be found in the Investor Information section of the Company's website...
- Articles 2008-04-18
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