UK Watchdog Set to Ease Insurance Rules for Large Companies May 14, 2025 By Leonard Kehnscherper The UK markets watchdog is planning to pare its rules on how insurers can sell policies to large companies, the...
UK Watchdog Fines London Metal Exchange Over Handling of 2022 Nickel Crisis March 21, 2025 By Polina Devitt and Eric Onstad Britain’s financial regulator fined the London Metal Exchange on Thursday for allowing nickel prices to surge out of control three...
Odey Banned From UK Financial Services Industry for ‘Lack of Integrity’ March 19, 2025 By Jonathan Browning Crispin Odey was fined £1.8 million ($2.3 million) and banned by the UK’s financial regulator for showing a “reckless disregard”...
UK Financial Watchdogs Drop Diversity and ‘Name and Shame’ Reforms March 12, 2025 By Sinead Cruise Britain’s top financial regulators have scrapped proposed new rules to boost diversity and inclusion in the industry, and mothballed a...
Accused of Going Too Far, UK Finance Regulator Plots Where to Go Next November 20, 2024 The UK’s top financial regulator has spent much of its eleven-year history in combat with the industry it oversees, a...
FCA Says Ex-Barclays CEO Staley Misled it Over Epstein Contacts During Probe November 19, 2024 Ex-Barclays CEO Jes Staley gave misleading answers to Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority about his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein when it...
Harassment Claims Soar at City Firms in Wake of Odey Scandal October 25, 2024 By Jonathan Browning City firms reported a 72% surge in non-financial misconduct complaints over the last three years following a string of high-profile...
Boozy Work Parties May Be Over With New UK Harassment Law October 25, 2024 By Jack Ryan Alcohol-fueled company events could become a thing of the past, as UK employers consider new rules that place an onus...
Fresh Appetite for Risk Can Help Arrest Britain’s Downward Spiral, Think Tank Says October 11, 2024 By Kirstin Ridley Britain’s decade-long economic downward spiral could be reversed with a fresh appetite for risk that might help boost annual investment...
Who Is to Blame for Deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire? September 5, 2024 By Catarina Demony and Michael Holden A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze concluded on Wednesday that a “culmination of decades of...