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This table contains information about who the FSA has fined during 2006.
Total amount of fines in 2006 - £13,309,143.

 

Amount Company or person fined Date What was the fine for? Compensation
£270,000 Redcats (Brands) Limited 20/12/06 Failing to treat customers fairly when selling Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) in connection with home shopping products  
£52,500 Home and County Mortgages Limited (HCML) 08/12/06 Management failures and a lack of skill, care and diligence  
£20,000
Sean Pignatelli
23/11/06 Breaches Principles 2 and 3 of the FSA's Statements of Principle for Approved Persons
 
£1,225,000 General Reinsurance UK Limited
22/11/06 For serious systems and controls failings
 
£17,500
Capital Mortgage Connections Ltd (CMC) 21/11/06
Breaches including cold calling potential customers and PPI failings
 
£455,000 Loans.co.uk Limited (LCUK) 26/10/06 PPI selling failures  
£7,000 Best Advice Mortgage Network (BAMNL) 23/10/06 Record keeping failures  
£250,000 James Boyd Parker 06/10/06 Market abuse  
£17,500 Individual: Paul Harrison, formerly Berry Birch & Noble Insurance Brokers (BBNIB) 22/09/06 Client money rule breaches  
£63,000
Langtons (IFA) Limited
21/09/06 For serious systems and controls failings  
£182,000 Braemar Financial Planning Limited 11/09/06 Systemic failings in its sales process for pensions unlocking  
£245,000 The Carphone Warehouse 07/09/06 Telesales; not providing customers with key facts documents  
£56,000 Regency Mortgage Corporation Ltd 05/09/06 Failures in mortgage related PPI sales in the sub prime market
 
£245,000 The Carphone Warehouse 07/09/06 Telesales; not providing customers with key facts documents  
£55,000 The Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society 25/08/06 Financial promotions failings  
£250,000 Kyte Group Limited 24/08/06 Systems and controls failings  
£90,000 Hoodless Brennan and Partners plc 17/08/06 Unacceptable sales practices and not treating customers fairly  
£150,000 Merrill Lynch International 07/08/06 Transaction reporting failures  
£750,000 Mr Philippe Jabre 01/08/06 For Market Abuse and breaking the FSA's statements of principle for Approved Persons.  
£750,000 GLG Partners LP (GLG) 01/08/06 For Market Abuse and for breaching the FSA's Principles for Business  
£35,000 Rainbow Homeloans Limited 27/06/06 Systems and controls failings  
£20,000 Besso Limited 28/04/06 Failing to apply for approval of an employee who held a significant management role at the firm when it first applied for authorisation.  
£35,000 Paul Tebbutt, chief executive of Millfield Partnership Limited (MPL) 12/04/06 Providing misleading information to the FSA in connection with an application by MPL to merge with Inter Alliance.  
£6,363,643 Deutsche Bank AG 11/04/06 Breaching FSA Principle 5 and Principle 2  
£350,000 David Maslen 11/04/06 Market misconduct  
£550,000 Royal Liver Assurance Ltd 10/04/06 Mis-selling with-profits savings policies.  
£300,000 Capita Financial Administrators Limited (CFA) 16/03/06 Poor anti-fraud controls over client identities and accounts  
£750,000 Guardian Assurance plc and Guardian Linked Life Assurance Limited (Guardian) 12/01/06 Serious systemic flaws in its mortgage endowment complaints handling procedures and for not drawing the problems to the attention of the regulator  

 

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