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Myer complainants in glass houses

The Courier-Mail, 12 hours 48 minutes ago / The fact is, many fund managers refused to buy into the float because, even during the bookbuild, no one was definitively told how many shares, if any, TPG was going to keep and, hence, how many shares were on issue.

Protectionist 'Cadbury's Law' is last thing UK needs

FT.com, 14 hours 39 minutes ago / At Tuesday's meeting of the House of Commons business, innovation and skills committee, Jack Dromey, deputy general secretary of Unite, will call for a "Cadbury's Law" to "prevent hostile takeovers of British companies which are not in the public interest".

FSA takes on more staff in effort to cut market abuse

The Scotsman - Edinburgh - Lothian - UK, Mar 15, 2010 / Hector Sants, who steps down as chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) this summer, revealed that the body will boost its budget by 10 per cent, or £41 million, as part of the increased drive against wrongdoing.

Julian Knight: No more banks behaving badly on card debt

The Independent - London - UK, Mar 13, 2010 / Tomorrow, the Government will announce that it has come to an agreement with the banks over how consumer debt is to be handled.

Glance-PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - March 13

Interactive Investor, Mar 12, 2010 / Tim O'Toole, former managing director of London Underground, could soon become chief executive of one of the private contractors he strongly criticised while in office.

March News Update

Financial Director, Feb 22, 2010 / The resignation of Financial Services Authority chief executive Hector Sants has raised speculation that he jumped before he was pushed owing to the fact that the Conservative Party – tipped as the likely winners of the impending General Election – would look to revert FSA powers to the Bank of England, something that Sants was loath to sanction.

Will the FSA step up regulation as Sants steps down?

Legal IT, Feb 18, 2010 / On 9 February 2010, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced that Hector Sants, the FSA's CEO, will stand down in the summer.

BoE's Paul Tucker tipped as Sants' successor

Citywire - UK, Feb 16, 2010 / The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said it does not plan to advertise for a new chief executive until after the general election but Paul Tucker is already being tipped to replace Hector Sants.

Funding requirement for FSA to increase by nearly ten per cent

Bobsguide, Feb 15, 2010 / The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) will increase its funding requirement during 2010-11 to £454.7 million.

Terry Murden: Flotation a gamble as investors avoid choppy financial seas

Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh - Midlothian - UK, Feb 13, 2010 / But as we explain on page 5, investors are being particularly selective about who they are willing to back.

City regulator rejects banks’ bonus plans

The Herald - Glasgow - Strathclyde - UK, Feb 12, 2010 / The City regulator has rejected proposed bonus payouts by several UK banks, minutes from a key meeting of regulators and politicians revealed yesterday, but it warned of problems next year if other countries do not follow Britain's lead.

Sants defends 10% increase in FSA budget for 2010/11

Citywire - UK, Feb 12, 2010 / Outgoing FSA chief executive Hector Sants has defended a 10% increase in the regulator's annual funding requirement saying the money is necessary to strengthen its supervisory capacity.

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" There's no question that one of the historical gaps in the regulatory architecture of the UK was the lack of clarity of responsibility for financial stability, the so-called macro-prudential gap and that needs to be filled "
Telegraph - London - UK, Mar 13, 2010
" Our benchmark should seek to have a market that participants really believe to be clean and fair and, as a general test, I think that if you were to ask the market participants, they would share my view that there is too much market abuse. "
Telegraph - London - UK, Mar 13, 2010
" There's no evidence particularly that the UK marketplace is worse than other major financial centres but I don't think that should be our benchmark. "
Telegraph - London - UK, Mar 13, 2010
" We need to continue to work to reduce that. "
Telegraph - London - UK, Mar 13, 2010
" There is an unacceptably high level of market abuse in the UK "
Telegraph - London - UK, Mar 13, 2010