If you give investment advice in the UK and your employer provides you with a mobile phone the chances are that from next year all your calls will be monitored and recorded. Fixed phone line calls involving financial business such as share purchases are already recorded but the UK’s financial watchdog, the Financial Services Authority [...]
Published on: 03 Dec 2010Imagine the situation. You’re a partner in one of the most prestigious investment banks in the world, you’re well known in the investment world and are no doubt on a great remuneration package. You suddenly obtain access to some price sensitive information which the public is not aware of. What do you do? Well, if [...]
Published on: 12 Mar 2010Question 10 in the June ACCA paper F4 (GLO) exam was a 2-parter dealing with the two criminal offences of ‘money laundering’ and ‘insider dealing’. It would appear that the examiner was fairly pleased with the standard of answers on the former, but not the latter. He commented as follows: “However, there was some concern [...]
Published on: 08 Aug 2009