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HK regulator reprimands, fines RBS over emerging-markets rates trades [April 23, 2014] HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said on Tuesday it reprimanded Royal Bank of Scotland <RBS.L> for internal control failures, fining the bank HK$6 million ($773,800). |
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The SFC said in a statement RBS failed to detect
and prevent unauthorized trades in its emerging markets rates
business in the city in 2011, following the discovery of
unauthorized trades by former trader Shirlina Tsang. Tsang was sentenced last year to 50 months in jail after
pleading guilty to fraud after was she caught falsifying records
of her trades, Reuters previously reported. "We put in place a comprehensive remediation program that
strengthened our governance and supervisory oversight, and our
control environment," RBS said in an e-mailed statement. The SFC called RBS's systems and controls at the emerging
markets rates business "seriously inadequate and revealed
significant weaknesses in its procedures, management systems and
internal controls," but the regulator said its decision took
into consideration the bank's speedy action in alerting it to
the misdeed. "This deserves substantial credit and is the reason why today's sanctions are not heavier ones," Mark Steward, the SFC's head of enforcement, said in a statement. ($1 = 7.7538 Hong Kong
dollars) (Reporting by Elzio Barreto; editing by Erica Billingham and Louise Heavens) [© 2014 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved.] Copyright 2014 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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