Insider trading

A former investment banker and his wife have been ordered to pay more than £1.5m for their benefits from insider dealing and warned they may have to serve extra jail time if they fail to do so.

Six people have been jailed after a successful Financial Services Authority (FSA) prosecution for insider dealing.

The chief executive of Japan's Nomura Holdings has resigned following a damaging insider trading scandal.

Six men have been convicted of offences relating to insider dealing which netted them £732,000 in profits.

Three people have been handed custodial sentences after pleading guilty to charges of insider dealing.

The Royal Bank of Scotland, the UK's largest government-owned lender, has dismissed at least four employees in connection with a probe of potential interest-rate manipulation, sources told Bloomberg News.

The FSA has begun a formal enforcement investigation into the rogue trade losses revealed by UBS last September.

Recent high profile FSA enforcement actions have lent weight to the regulator's vow to police market participants more rigorously.

Britons rank second in a list of non-US nationals most keen to tip America's regulators off about suspected financial crime, according to the first annual report on the Securities & Exchange Commission's whistleblower programme.

Billionaire investor George Soros has lost his appeal to have a 2002 conviction for insider trading of Société Générale shares thrown out, the Telegraph reports.