Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Schedule slips and costs rise on rate hedge payouts
UK regulator reveals that banks will miss deadline for compensating interest rate hedge mis-selling victims
RBS review heralds tighter focus on small business lending
The news of a regulator-ordered review of RBS's lending shows that the FCA plans to tighten up oversight of treatment of small businesses as well as retail customers
Sants quits Barclays after just 10 months in compliance role
Ex-regulator and head of compliance quits UK bank citing stress
Energy trading firms must be whiter than white
Allegations of manipulation are particularly bad for energy trading firms, which should respond by holding themselves to higher standards
Top 10 op risks: internal control failures
The fifth in our series of top 10 op risks for 2014 looks at internal control failures. Banks in 2014 face the task of improving governance to prevent another year of embarrassing losses
Top 10 operational risks for 2014
Internal failures will prove as dangerous as external threats for the financial industry in 2014
FCA skilled persons reviews 'a distraction from compliance', experts warn
Stronger FCA focus may be diverting resources from day-to-day compliance tasks
Rabobank fined $1 billion for Libor failings
Dutch bank the latest to pay for benchmark manipulation
The value of stress-testing structured products
Trade of the month
Whistleblowing: the case for financial incentives
UK authorities are edging closer to offering bounties to encourage whistleblowers
UK banks improving on sales incentives, says FCA's Wheatley
Three out of four major UK banks now link incentives to more than just sales, regulator says
AIFMD continues to cause concern among hedge fund managers
Sponsored forum: AIFMD
Big European companies reject third-party reporting for derivatives
Corporates fear they will still pay the penalty if mistakes are made by delegated reporting services
Energy trading firms unprepared for Emir and Remit, poll finds
Many energy market participants are worryingly unprepared for Emir and Remit, according to a recent poll by Energy Risk
Cross-border stricter-rule-applies approach causing confusion
Global regulators have agreed to cooperate when implementing new derivatives rules on a cross-border basis, but market participants are unsure as to how this will work in practice
Icap fined $87.4m for Libor manipulation as brokers charged
CFTC and FCA impose fines of $65 million and £14 million
JP Morgan fined $920m over 'woefully deficient' London Whale controls
UK and US authorities fine bank over $6.2 billion trading losses in July 2012
First substituted compliance determinations by year-end, says Gensler
CFTC chairman confident that first entity-level determinations will be complete by December 21, but is less certain about transaction-level requirements
Gensler not ruling out targeted Sef relief
CFTC chairman recognises difficulty in meeting October 2 Sef deadline, but says platforms need to be targeted in requests
FCA: insurers are 'undermining' RDR rules
Regulator finds that "more than half" of UK insurers are still offering banned inducements
PPI-related complaints show signs of levelling off
Modest increase in complaints related to payment protection insurance
FCA quizzes hedge funds on interest rate exposure
Regulator wrote to large hedge funds in August, following volatility in UK interest rates market
FCA figures suggest true cost of rate hedge mis-selling
Settling complaints of mis-selling complex interest rate products could cost UK banks billions