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Ten largest fines to date.

Amount Company or person fined Date What was the fine for? Compensation
£17,000,000 Shell Transport and Trading Company, Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies 24/08/04 Market abuse  
£13,900,000 Citigroup Global Markets Limited 28/06/05 Breaching FSA Principles 2 and 3 by failing to conduct its business with due skill, care and dilligance  
£8,000,000 UBS AG 05/11/09 For systems and controls failures that enabled four employees to carry out unauthorised transactions involving customer money on at least 39 accounts  
£7,000,000 Toronto Dominion Bank 17/12/09 For repeated systems and controls failings around the pricing of sophisticated financial products  
£7,000,000 Alliance & Leicester Plc 07/10/08 For serious failings in its telephone sales of payment protection insurance  
£6,363,643 Deutsche Bank AG 11/04/06 Breaching FSA Principle 5 and Principle 2  
£5,600,000 Credit Suisse 13/08/08 for breaching FSA Principles 2 and 3 by failing to conduct their business with due skill, care and diligence and failing to organise and control their business effectively  
£5,250,000 Aon Limited 08/01/09 For failing to take reasonable care to establish and maintain effective systems and controls to counter the risks of bribery and corruption associated with making payments to overseas firms and individuals.  
£4,000,000 Credit Suisse First Boston International 19/12/02 Attempting to mislead the Japanese regulatory and tax authorities  
£2,800,000 GMAC-RFC Ltd 29/10/09 For failing to treat customers fairly and secured redress of up to £7.7million (plus interest) for over 46,000 mortgage customers.