The Financial Services Authority [FSA] is planning to introduce bigger fines and jail time for insider traders.
Figures indicate insider dealing is rampant in the UK with between a quarter and a third of takeovers being subject to so-called “informed price movements”.
Notwithstanding media speculation - fuelling investor speculation and of course semi-psychic analysts - it is clear that [...]

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Jail time being considered in battle against insider dealing
Miles Griffiths - Friday 02.05.08, 05:53am
Tags: Security · Small Businesses · UK Economy
Crime against business soars by 20% in 4 years
Miles Griffiths - Saturday 12.04.08, 05:45am
The British Chambers of Commerce reports that the cost of criminal damage to UK businesses runs out at about £12.6 billion - up by a fifth since 2004 - and is ‘hugely damaging’.
50% of firms responding to the BCC survey had suffered crime last year ranging from burglary, damage to vehicles and other vandalism such [...]
Tags: Security · Small Businesses
1 in 6 Britons suffer data fraud
Miles Griffiths - Tuesday 25.03.08, 06:43am
Data value management firm, DQM Group, has found that as many as 1 in 6 Britons has suffered data fraud in the last twelve months. The highest risk category is young male professionals living in London.
But what is bad for the public is equally bad for business. As well as the bad PR there are [...]
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