Online payment company QuidPay on Thursday won its bid to get back funds worth more than $12 million held by a fintech platform, with a London judge finding the platform could not hold the funds as a reserve after contracts were terminated.
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Online Payment Biz Wins Back $12M Funds Held In Reserve

By Ronan Barnard

Online payment company QuidPay on Thursday won its bid to get back funds worth more than $12 million held by a fintech platform, with a London judge finding the platform could not hold the funds as a reserve after contracts were terminated.

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Fintech Says Ex-Exec Used Secret Info To Build Rival Platform

By Jamie Lennox

A financial technology company has accused a former executive of misusing its confidential information while still an employee to build a competing platform, as it asked a London court to declare it the owner of the new business.

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ICO Raids Companies That Sent Nuisance Car Finance Texts

By Alex Davidson

The Information Commissioner's Office said Thursday that it has searched multiple properties across the U.K. and seized electronic items after consumers filed millions of complaints about car finance adverts.

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ENFORCEMENT

Traders' Rate-Rigging Conviction Appeals Set For October

By Ronan Barnard

Six former traders at Barclays and Deutsche Bank convicted of rigging benchmark interest rates will challenge their convictions in October after a 2025 U.K. Supreme Court ruling prompted a review of their cases, the Court of Appeal said Thursday.

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FCA Censures Securities Co. For Misleading Minibond Ads

By Alex Davidson

The Financial Conduct Authority said Thursday that it has censured a corporate finance business for approving misleading financial promotions used to sell minibonds, a risky type of investment.

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LITIGATION

Safa Wife Bids To Slip Net Tying Her To $2B Tuna Bonds Case

By Eddie Beaver

The widow of shipbuilding magnate Iskandar Safa urged an appeals court Thursday to overturn a ruling allowing Mozambique to add her to its bribery case after the country secured a $1.9 billion damages award, arguing that any claim against her belongs in Lebanon.

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Brief

ICBC Bank Settles Hacking Imposter Claim

By Robbie Kalus

ICBC Standard Bank has settled a hacking claim with a client company that alleged the lender transferred €795,000 ($912,000) from the client's account on the instructions of an imposter impersonating the company's director.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Pensions Trade Group Urges Trustees To Police AI Risks

By Martin Croucher

A pensions standards body has published guidance for the sector on how to manage risks associated with artificial intelligence, following near universal industry adoption of the technology.

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Auto-Enrollment Sees Participation In Work Pensions Hit 90%

By Tom Fish

Automatic enrollment into workplace pensions continued to underpin savings in Britain in 2025, the government said Thursday, although an expert at a financial services consultancy has warned that action is needed to ensure people are putting enough away for retirement.

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DEALS

Pinsent Masons, Mayer Brown Lead £208M Pension Buy-In

By Tom Fish

Trustees of the pension plan of chemicals company Hickson International PLC have completed a bulk purchase annuity buy-in worth £208 million ($278 million), pension investor Royal London Group said Thursday.

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Brief

LSE Owner Kicks Off £700M Stock Buyback After Profit Surge

By Irene Madongo

London Stock Exchange Group PLC began a stock repurchase program of up to £700 million ($940 million) on Thursday as the bourse owner disclosed a sharp jump in pretax profit for the first half of 2026.

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