Markets Regulation

Three arrested in insider dealing probe

Men understood to have ties with hedge funds and asset managers

• FSA to rethink retail sales ban
• FSA to seek order over land bank schemes

Capital requirements cut for new banks

Regulators push to boost competition in high street banking

• Co-op capital hole threatens Lloyds deal
• Smaller banks say rules hit their lending

Supermarket chain succeeds in cutting initial OFT fine

• Lombard 100 per cent beef beef
• Tesco plans DNA testing of meat products

Banks suspected of tweaking risk measure

EBA study finds 70% variation in capital held by banks

• Lex Risk-weighted assets
• Regulators in Euribor transparency push

Those betting on D Börse deal face a wait

Exchange quickly moves to shoot down talk it is pursuing a merger

• CME pushes for talks with Deutsche Börse
• Lex Deutsche Börse

Brussels challenges Madrid on regulator plan

Spain accused of legal infringement over watchdog merger

• Global Insight Rajoy ploughs on in spite of scandal
• Politicians pilloried amid Spanish sleaze

Search begins for new Libor administrator

Move is effort to restore confidence in scandal-plagued rate

• Carney warns over lack of trust in banks
• Editorial The rising cost of the Libor scandal

Auditors’ cosiness with clients under threat

Reform of audit system could give investors more power

• Regulator moves to break auditor ties
• Insurer replaces Deloitte with KPMG