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A financial adviser has been jailed for two years after swindling three women, including two elderly aunties, out of £312,000.
A financial adviser who admitted to fraudulently gaining almost £250,000 from clients and an insurer, as well as perverting the course of justice, has been jailed for three-and-a half years.
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Robin Farrell, the chief executive of Arch Financial Products, has formally launched a defence against claims he made secret profits amid the Arch Cru funds collapse.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has proposed a ban for Anthony Verrier, a senior executive at BGC Partners, after deciding he is not a fit and proper person due to concerns over his honesty, integrity and reputation.
An IFA who allegedly reduced a client to tears after a drunken meeting has claimed she was unfairly forced out of the business by her employer.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has been told by a judge that it must destroy privileged attorney-client emails it obtained as part of its investigation into Keydata.
A total of 162 firms have been included in proceedings launched by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme to claw back money paid out to investors in Lifemark-backed Keydata products.
A Newport-based financial adviser has admitted to fraudulently gaining almost £250,000 from clients and an insurer, as well as perverting the course of justice.
An action group representing hundreds of Keydata investors has called on the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to back its litigation against the multi-national firms which acted on the SLS Capital and Life Settlement Capital Bond Schemes.
A land banking business shut down by the Insolvency Service last year convinced investors to hand over £10m in less than three years.
The High Court has placed two landbanking businesses into provisional liquidation on the grounds of public interest, following an investigation by the Insolvency Service.
A High Court judge ruled today that bankrupts could be forced to draw their pensions and hand them over to their creditors.
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