All Europe articles – Page 63
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FCA calls for technology for ‘smarter’ regulatory reporting
In a bid to cut down on firms’ “burdensome” reporting woes while easing its own workload to review such reporting, the Financial Conduct Authority is seeking input on how technology could make regulatory reporting simpler and more consistent.
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Former Co-operative Bank chair banned from the financial services industry
The Financial Conduct Authority has banned former Co-operative Bank Chair Paul Flowers from the financial services industry after he was caught using his work phone and e-mail to conduct inappropriate phone calls and send sexually explicit messages.
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Financial Conduct Authority bans former Deutsche Bank trader
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has fined Guillaume Adolph, a former short-term interest rate derivatives trader at Deutsche Bank, £180,000 and banned him from performing any function in relation to any regulated financial activity.
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SFO to seek retrial of three former Tesco managers
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office is seeking a retrial of three former senior managers of retail company Tesco, who are facing fraud and false accounting charges.
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Preventing money laundering in law firms
Strict new anti-money laundering regulations will make compliance matters much more complicated for U.K. solicitors whose business makes them a target for money laundering operations.
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Slowly but surely, Luxembourg is complying with AMLD 4
Although it is uncharacteristically behind schedule, Luxembourg’s legislature is working on implementing transparency measures in line with AMLD 4. But will it be fast enough to avoid penalties from the European Commission?
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Fresenius Medical Care reserves €200 million in FCPA case
Germany-based Fresenius Medical Care, a provider of dialysis products and services, has set aside €200 million concerning its ongoing settlement negotiations with the U.S. government regarding potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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FCA publishes new credit card rules
The Financial Conduct Authority has published its final policy statement on new rules for the credit card market, which will come into force on 1 March 2018. Firms have until 1 September to comply.
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Financial Conduct Authority fines Vanquis £2 million
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has imposed a fine of £2 million on credit card lender, Vanquis, for failing to disclose the full price of an add-on product, called Repayment Option Plan. It must also pay nearly £170 million in compensation to customers.
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Report: Royal Bank of Scotland abused small businesses during financial crisis
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has released a report detailing how RBS mistreated distressed small businesses over a six-year period starting in 2009.
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Complying with transparency: the Oxfam lesson
As U.K. charity organization Oxfam deals with its own sexual misconduct scandal, it illustrates the need for organizational transparency.
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New U.K. recall regulator for ‘white goods’
The U.K. government has set up a new national body to tackle the recall of dangerously faulty white goods and electrical items following evidence that manufacturers are slow to carry out the process and local authorities are disinclined to oversee it.
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SFO charges Barclays a second time over fraudulent $3B Qatar loan
Barclays will face charges of unlawful financial assistance in relation to an illegal transaction during the height of the financial crisis to keep the bank from failing.
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Social media companies lag on compliance with EU consumer rules
Social media companies—Facebook, Twitter, and Google+—need to do more to respond to requests made last March by the European Commission and member states' consumer authorities to comply with EU consumer protection rules.
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FCA seeks input on using technology to achieve smarter regulatory reporting
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority is seeking comment on how technology can make it easier for firms to meet their regulatory reporting requirements and improve the quality of the information they provide.
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Swiss regulator publishes ICO guidelines
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, FINMA, has published guidelines setting out how it intends to apply financial market legislation in handling enquiries from initial coin offering organisers. The guidelines also define the information FINMA requires to deal with such enquiries and the principles upon which it will base its ...
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U.K. and U.S. to collaborate on FinTech initiatives
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission have signed a first-of-its-kind arrangement with one another to collaborate and support innovative firms through each other’s FinTech initiatives.
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Could Tesco have avoided its £4 billion (U.S.$5.6B) unequal pay case
Law firm Leigh Day is taking legal action against Tesco in “what is potentially the largest ever equal pay challenge in U.K. history,” according to the firm.
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Singapore proposes e-payment standards for financial institutions
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has launched a public consultation on proposed guidelines to protect users of electronic payments, which would set standards on the responsibilities of financial institutions.
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TrustArc launches GDPR individual rights management solution
TrustArc, a data privacy management company, recently announced the launch of its TrustArc Individual Rights Manager, a 3-in-1 solution to help companies address data subject access rights requests in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.