Tag: FCA bans

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December 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

UK investment professional Angela Burns fined £20.000 by the FCA

UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has just announced that it has fined the UK investment professional Angela Burns £20,000. The regulator has also banned her from acting as a non-executive director. The official and complete FCA announcement can be seen below: The Financial Conduct authority (FCA) has banned Angela Burns from acting as a non-executive director (NED)…

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ESMA releases supportive opinion regarding BaFin’s ban on short selling
November 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA bans a former First Step Finance Limited Director

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that it has banned Darren Lee Newton from working in the financial services sector. The FCA discovered Mr Newton used customers’ money for the purchase of the debt management firm, First Step Finance Limited. This showed a serious lack of honesty and integrity. The FCA has decided that…

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ESMA releases supportive opinion regarding BaFin’s ban on short selling
July 25, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA bans four former directors of Secure My Money Ltd

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has just announced that it has banned David James Carter Mullins, Edward John Booth, Christopher Paul Brotherton and Mark Robert Kennedy, the former directors and shareholders of Secure My Money Limited (now dissolved). The firm took fees of over £7.2 million from approximately 124,000 online customers by duping them into…

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December 02, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA bans Chief Executive at TMI and fines him £233,600

The Financial Conduct Authority has published a Decision Notice in respect of Alistair Burns, Chief Executive at TailorMade Independent Limited (TMI). Mr Burns has referred this Decision Notice to the Upper Tribunal (the Tribunal) where he and the FCA will each present their case. The Decision Notice, which reflects the FCA’s view of what occurred…

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