The U.K.'s City watchdog said Wednesday that it has hit Starling Bank Ltd. with a £28.9 million ($38.4 million) fine over failures to screen for financial sanctions and for breaching a ban on opening accounts for high-risk clients.
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FCA Fines Starling £29M For 'Shockingly Lax' Client Screening

By Alex Davidson

The U.K.'s City watchdog said Wednesday that it has hit Starling Bank Ltd. with a £28.9 million ($38.4 million) fine over failures to screen for financial sanctions and for breaching a ban on opening accounts for high-risk clients.

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UK To Give Banks New Powers To Combat Fraudsters

By Alex Davidson

The U.K. government said Thursday it is introducing new laws enabling banks to extend investigations of suspected fraudulent payments.

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FCA Wins Appeal In $700M BlueCrest Investor Redress Case

By Sophia Dourou

The Financial Conduct Authority can resume its bid to impose a redress scheme of more than $700 million for investors of hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management, an appeals court said Wednesday, ruling that a tribunal wrongly held that the regulator did not have that power.

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LITIGATION

AerCap Battles Insurers Over Stranded Jets As Trial Begins

By Joanne Faulkner

There is "no scope" for major insurers to refuse billion-dollar claims for planes seized by Russian airlines, lawyers for major lessor Aercap told the High Court on Wednesday on the first day of a trial that is likely to be a test case for other claims.

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Sheikh Can't Shake Enforcement Of Bros' $718M Inheritance

By Eddie Beaver

The son of an Emirati royal accused of embezzling more than $1 billion from his dead father cannot stop his brothers from seeking to enforce a UAE judgment in England that orders him to pay them about 2.6 billion dirham ($718 million) as part of their "legitimate share" of the inheritance.

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Quinn Emanuel Says It Can't Give Source Of Deripaska Report

By Sophia Dourou

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP told a court Wednesday that the source of a report suggesting that Russian industrialist Oleg Deripaska misled arbitrators during a dispute with a former business partner was privileged information.

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Lawyers Fail To Overturn EU Ban On Legal Services To Russia

By Eddie Beaver

The European General Court on Wednesday dismissed an attempt by French and Belgian lawyers to overturn prohibitions on providing legal advice to Russia, clarifying that the ban only applies when the advice has no link to judicial proceedings.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

What To Know About The UK Overseas Funds Regime

The U.K.’s overseas funds regime is now open for applications, providing a simplified way of offering a foreign fund to U.K. retail investors, and the Financial Conduct Authority's clear policy statement on implementation should ease the transition process from the existing scheme, say lawyers at Dechert.

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GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

European Union

Financial Conduct Authority

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