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Regulatory
Bodies, Clearing Services and Stock Exchanges
Companies House for company registration and accounting data:
www.companieshouse.gov.uk
Financial Services Authority which regulates investment advisors, fund
managers, etc:
www.fsa.gov.uk
FSA - UK Listing
Authority and Listing Rules:
www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Doing/UKLA/index.shtml
Bank of England:
www.bankofengland.co.uk
London Stock Exchange - note has links to web sites of all listed companies:
www.londonstockexchange.com
The
Takeover Panel - regulate and monitor mergers and acquisitions:
www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk
Plus
Market (formerly Ofex)- trading exchange for smaller,"unlisted" companies:
www.plusmarketsgroup.com
Crest - the UK “dematerialised” share register and settlement system:
www.crestco.co.uk
Financial Ombudsman Service - for complaints about some institutions:
www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk
FRC -
Financial Reporting Council:
www.frc.org.uk
(note they publish the Combined Code on Corporate Governance which is at:
http://www.frc.org.uk/corporate/combinedcode.cfm )
and they now incorporate the Accounting Standards Board
 Legal & Political
UK Parliament - gives email addresses, web sites and biographies of MPs
among other information:
www.parliament.uk
Acts of Parliament, UK (HMSO) including Companies Acts:
www.hmso.gov.uk/acts.htm
European Parliament including lists of UK MEPs:
www.europarl.org.uk
European Union web sites index- a mine of useful information:
www.eurunion.org/infores/euindex.htm
Governance - publish magazine on corporate governance:
www.governance.co.uk
PIRC -
corporate governance consultancy:
www.pirc.co.uk
Manifest -
Provide proxy voting service and governance reports:
www.manifest.co.uk
HM Revenue & Customs, but don’t expect to find a simple explanation of how to work
out your capital gains tax:
www.hmrc.gov.uk
Department of Trade and Industry which handles company and trade matters for
the government:
www.dti.gov.uk
Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and Competition Authority:
www.oft.gov.uk
Serious Fraud Office, for when you really have a problem:
www.sfo.gov.uk
Shareholder Rights, for your legal rights in private companies:
www.shareholderrights.co.uk (much of which also is applicable to
public companies which is the main focus for UKSA).
For other links, go to
the following pages:
Government/Corporate Bonds and Collective
Funds
Stock Market Information Services and Portfolio
Management
Smaller
Companies (AIM,
Plus Markets, VCT and EIS)
Private Investor Associations and Professional Bodies
Foreign Currency, Search Engines and Book Shops
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