FSA doubles number of prosecutors - Niche Market Recruitment - Emu Consulting

Tha FSA has revealed it has more then doubled the number of criminal prosecutors probing insider dealing and other illegal market activity. The regulator said it was focusing on criminal rather than civil cases, although there was a strong pipeline of both types of case.

Sally Dewar, head of the wholesale markets division for the FSA said the FSA needed to be ''bold'' as prosecutions had previousley been hard to achieve as the burden of proof in such cases is high.