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.
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.
The independent complaints body for government departments has launched an inquiry into historical injustices in state pensions that could lead to hundreds of millions of pounds being paid out in compensation to women who were affected, a consultancy said Thursday.
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.
An Austrian bank cannot rely on its "Easybank" trademarks to stop Italian rival Intesa Sanpaolo from protecting its "Isybank" brand because there is no likelihood of European Union consumers mixing up the signs, officials in the bloc have ruled.
The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Ltd. completed its first full scheme buy-in with the £30 million ($39.8 million) acquisition of The Retreat York Pension Scheme in a deal guided by Hogan Lovells and Wrigleys Solicitors, its adviser K3 Advisory said Wednesday.
Aviva PLC has covered £140 million ($186 million) of pension liabilities for insurance group Thomas Miller & Co. Ltd. to secure the benefits of all members of the retirement savings plan, the companies said Wednesday.
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.
