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Oil futures and alcohol

An unusual Final Notice relating to Stephen Perkins was published on the FSA website. Mr Perkins, a (now ex) oil futures broker was fined £72K by the FSA and prohibited […] [...]

Client money

Few people will have failed to read about the record £33.32m fine imposed on JP Morgan Securities Ltd for client money failings. As firms will be aware from past Regulatory […] [...]

Directed trades

Anjam Ahmad was the subject of a Final Notice for having directed trades to a broker with which he had entered into an improved commission agreement with. Although an initial […] [...]

Competence

The FSA has released CP 10/12 – “Competence and ethics”. The Code of Practice for Approved Persons (APER) will have some amendments, chief of which will be the addition of […] [...]

AIFM directive delay

Rapporteur Jean-Paul Gauzès has now announced that the Parliamentary vote on the AIFM directive will be delayed from July until September. The UK is said to be pushing for second […] [...]

FSA’s AIFM directive presentation

In early June the FSA held a presentation on the AIFM directive. The link will take you to the slides used for the FSA’s AIFM directive presentation. Slides 14 & […] [...]

The role of auditors & Skilled Persons Reports

Discussion Paper 10/3 “Enhancing the auditor’s contribution to prudential regulation” has been issued by the FSA. Firms that hold client money and assets may find 3.43 onwards of interest. As […] [...]

UK regulatory reform

The FSA is being broken up into the Prudential Regulation Authority (‘PRA’), as a subsidiary of the Bank of England, and a new Consumer Protection and Markets Authority (‘CPMA’). A […] [...]

FSA Chairman’s speech

Adair Turner spoke at the FSA’s Annual Public Meeting on 24 June 2010 reporting on the performance over the past year. He mentioned that it is ‘very difficult in this […] [...]

FSA Enforcement Conference 2010

Margaret Cole emphasised the FSA’s strong and continuing commitment to their aim of credible deterrence, which she described as meaning ‘having an enforcement team who are seen as a force […] [...]

Remuneration

The European Council’s Committee of Permanent Representatives (‘COREPER’) has agreed amending text of the Capital Requirements Directive (‘CRD’) III which will affect remuneration and bonuses – possibly from January 2011. […] [...]

EU Legislative Process

There has, of course, been an abundance of articles on the AIFM Directive recently. The quality of reporting is variable, with some headlines suggesting that it’s all over (see the […] [...]

European Supervision – All Change

Whilst we are on things European, a reminder that the European Commission has adopted legislation that will implement a new supervisory framework for the EU, which will include the disappearance […] [...]

Financial Services Regulation Bill

The Queen’s Speech gave confirmation of an overhaul of the regulation of financial services “Legislation will reform financial services regulation to learn from the financial crisis …” which is supplemented […] [...]

Small Firms & Financial Crime

Following a review of 159 small firms (out of a population of 16,500) across the wholesale and retail sectors the FSA published ‘The Small Firms Financial Crime Review’. As firms […] [...]

Client Money and Assets

A reminder for those firms in receipt of a ‘Dear CEO’ letter under the heading of ‘Client Money & Asset Report’ that went out earlier this year (see Regulatory Roundup […] [...]

Combined Code

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has released a revised version of the Combined Code, or, as it is now called, the UK Corporate Governance Code. Although the Code is strictly […] [...]

FSA Fees

The FSA has issued PS10/7 – “Consolidated Policy Statement on our fee-raising arrangements and regulatory fees and levies 2010/11”. As mentioned in Regulatory Roundup #5, fees will be a combination […] [...]

Stress Testing

Although Christmas seems a long way off, relevant BIPRU firms may wish to ensure that they are on track to meet the reverse stress testing requirements that come into force […] [...]

Close Links

As mentioned in Regulatory Roundup #5, the amended rules governing close links reporting which came into effect on 1 June 2010. The main change is that close links notification now […] [...]

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