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White Collar Crime Update: “Making and Accepting a Financial Advantage” under the Bribery Act 2010

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has brought the first set of charges under the Bribery Act 2010 against a UK company allegedly involved in a £23 million bio-fuel investment fraud.…

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Swaps Complaints in the Financial Ombudsman Service Annual Review for 2012/2013

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS)  was set up under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to resolve individual disputes between consumers and financial businesses. It has just published its…

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RBS v Highland Financial Partners: Culture of denial at RBS?

In a recent unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal in the case of RBS v Highland Financial Partners [2013] EWCA Civ 328, it was held that RBS…

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The Times: Banks’ secretly settling swaps mis-selling cases

The Times Newspaper has been given inside information from a number of reputable sources that banks are striking secret settlement deals with small businesses over the mis-selling of interest…