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Exclusive: leak from secret FSA Barclays assessment
Treasury Select Committee chair Andrew Tyrie drops a bombshell, Faisal Islam at the hearing looks at revelations so far.
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Hafsa Qureshi: LGBT Muslim voices ‘are still not being heard’
Hafsa Qureshi works at the Ministry of Justice and has been named 2019 Bi role model of the year by the campaigning group Stonewall.
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Horsemeat found in tinned beef, FSA says
The horse meat scandal rears its head once again. In this instance it is canned beef, sold in the UK, that has been found to contain traces of horse DNA, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) says.
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Horsemeat report reveals FSA and retail failings
A lack of clarity about what the UK’s food regulator should be doing, and a failure by supermarkets to be vigilant about meat products, contributed to the UK horsemeat scandal, say MPs.
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Horsemeat scandal: FSA says ready meals are safe
Andrew Rhodes, director of operations at the FSA, tells Jon Snow the agency is not advising anyone to stop eating ready meals, and that the FSA “has enough resources” to deal with the scandal.
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Suppliers ordered to FSA meeting after latest meat scandal
The Food Standards Agency orders major food retailers and suppliers to an urgent meeting after the latest food foul-up – pork being found in halal prison food.
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FSA reveals extent of swaps mis-selling
Most of the complex interest-rate hedging products, or “swaps”, purchased by small businesses had been mis-sold to them by banks, a Financial Services Authority report concludes.
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Key questions for MPs grilling Barclays and FSA
The committee investigating the Libor rate-fixing scandal questions Jerry del Missier, Barclays’ ex-chief operating officer, who reportedly earned £40m a year when the bank was rigging interest rates.
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FSA to crack down on ‘irresponsible’ mortgages
The financial regulator is unveiling new rules for banks on approving mortgages to make sure customers are not able to borrow more than they can afford.
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Goldman Sachs fined £17.5m by FSA
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs is given a hefty fine from the UK’s City regulator following an investigation which began in the wake of fraud charges against the bank in the US.
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Iran: tens of thousands gather to hear Rafsanjani speak
Iran’s opposition supporters have a way of turning things upside-down and back-to-front in the Islamic Republic. Many of them are secular, yet they go onto their balconies every night to shout “Allah Akbar,” putting the Basij militia, the vanguard of the Islamic Revolution, into the invidious position of telling people to stop praising God. That’s…
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Jon Snow
My FOI request on the FSA threw up SFA
I am at the apparent end of a tussle with the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Or I think I am. Last month it was revealed that 51 individuals had effectively failed to pass muster as “competent” to hold key positions in Britain’s financial services industry. Or to put it more politely, these individuals had “withdrawn”…
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Jon Snow
FSA – still not fit for purpose?
How can it be that this far into Britain’s financial crisis, yet another building society is in trouble? Tonight the West Bromwich Building Society’s future hangs in the balance as it fights to find extra financial resources to keep going.
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FactCheck: Starmer claims ‘nobody feels better off than 14 years ago’
Most people have slightly more money in their pocket, according to the latest data.
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Ramadan under Lockdown: How one Muslim family are observing the holy month
We join Hafsah Habiri from London, in conversation with her parents, to find out how they’re spending Ramadan under lockdown.
