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04 Apr 2013
Businesses are allowed to disclose information that is materially relevant to investors through social media channels providing they explain that they may do so first, a US regulator has said.
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02 Apr 2013
A new system of regulation will oversee businesses in the financial services sector after reforms to the previous regime took effect on Monday.
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21 Mar 2013
A payday loan company has been put out of the loans business by consumer protection regulator the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) over its failure to stop millions of pounds of loans being taken out by identity thieves.
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13 Mar 2013
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened an investigation into alleged "accounting disclosure failures and misrepresentations" at software provider Autonomy prior to Hewlett Packard's (HP's) takeover of the company in 2011, HP has said.
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07 Mar 2013
The Government has confirmed its intention to transfer regulatory responsibility for the payday lending sector to the new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) from April 2014.
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05 Mar 2013
The new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) should seek to better communicate the way in which whistleblowers can raise concerns about practices in the financial services industry before it looks to offer incentives to individuals who flag their concerns,...
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28 Feb 2013
Bodies acting under a "public law duty" do not need to cover losses incurred by third parties when they 'freeze' the assets of a company under investigation, the Supreme Court has confirmed.
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22 Feb 2013
The regulator is reconsidering its proposed ban on all cash rebates paid to consumers who have their investments managed through platforms, according to press reports.
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13 Feb 2013
The financial services regulator is rethinking its plans to restrict the marketing of certain types of "non-mainstream" investment schemes to ordinary retail investors, it has said.
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12 Feb 2013
Stricter regulation of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market could come into force as soon as next month after the European Parliament backtracked on plans to vote against the new rules.
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