FCA fines UBS £27.6m over reporting errors

UBS also failed to ensure it provided complete and accurate information in relation to approximately 86.67m reportable transactions.

Altogether, over a period of 9 and a half years, UBS made 135.8m errors in its transaction reporting, breaching FCA rules.

Additionally, the FCA found that UBS failed to take reasonable care to organise and control its affairs responsibly and effectively in respect of its transaction reporting. These failings related to aspects of UBS’s change management processes, its maintenance of the reference data used in its reporting and how it tested whether all the transactions it reported to the FCA were accurate and complete.

UBS agreed to resolve the case and so qualified for a 30% discount in the overall penalty.

Mark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: "Firms must have proper systems and controls to identify what transactions they have carried out, on what markets, at what price, in what quantity and with whom. If firms cannot report their transactions accurately, fundamental risks arise, including the risk that market abuse may be hidden."