Purpose – To report and comment on the tribunal case Jonathan Milnroy Townrow v. Financial Services Authority. Design/methodology/approach – Outlines the facts and explains the decision. Findings – Shows that, even though this was an extreme case, it is likely that any Tribunal would have...

Purpose – To report and comment on the tribunal case Timothy Edward Baldwin and WRT Investments v. Financial Services Authority. Design/methodology/approach – Outlines the facts and comments on the decision reached. Findings – Finds that the Tribunal made comments and observations that are...

Purpose – To provide a practical insight into the Financial Services Authority's (FSA) “Treating Customers Fairly” (TCF) initiative for financial services firms endeavouring to implement such an approach. Design/methodology/approach – This qualitative paper subjectively considers the TCF...

Purpose – This paper examines the activities carried out in the UK by credit refer agencies, current business practices, and the legal standing of credit reporting. Design/methodology/approach – Legal analysis that aims to demonstrate that the current legal framework is inadequate. Findings...

Purpose – To examine the case for reforming India's current provident and pension fund governance and regulatory structures. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews various components of India's social security system with a view to identifying reform needs in their governance and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the state of integration of securities market infrastructure in Europe. Design/methodology/approach – Given the lack of quantitative and price‐based measures, this paper adopts a rather qualitative approach to evaluating the degree and...

Purpose – To describe the 5th May 2006 ECOFIN conclusions on supervisory convergence and explain why they represent a new departure for European financial services work. Design/methodology/approach – The article outlines the 6th 2006 ECOFIN conclusions relating to supervisory convergence. It...

Purpose – Bodies with responsibilities for paying pensions to individuals face a mortality risk in that the pensioners may prove longer lived than expected. The significant scale and uncertainity of this risk is becoming increasingly clear. Various measures are available to control this risk...

Purpose – To consider the implications of the banks fiduciary duty to their depositors (as well as the shareholders) and the government's fiscal duty to taxpayers (in the presence of deposit insurance) for the corporate governance (CG) of banks. Design/methodology/approach – Recent...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the capacity of response of the banking sector's information systems (IS), in the light of the new requirements of Basel II (Basel Bank for International Settlements) on the measurement and control of operational risk (OR)....