Martin Coyle is a Senior Correspondent at MLex Market Insight, a LexisNexis company. He focuses on federal legislation, providing in-depth analysis and reporting on the intricacies of policy-making and its implications. Martin's work is featured in various publications, showcasing his expertise in navigating the complexities of government affairs.
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Martin Coyle's coverage heavily focuses on legal and compliance issues, with a significant emphasis on fraud, bribery, corruption, and financial crime in the UK. His articles also cover government announcements and breaking news related to legal policy regulation.
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By: Martin Coyle
By Martin Coyle ( October 8, 2026, 20:09 GMT | Insight) -- Former Barclays trader Jay Merchant, who saw his conviction for rate
Former Deutsche Bank star trader Christian Bittar had his conviction for rate rigging overturned at the Court of Appeal in London on Friday, days after five former Barclays traders saw similar convictions overturned. The Serious Fraud Office, which hadn’t contested the appeals of the five Barclays traders this week, had resisted Bittar’s appeal, saying he had pleaded guilty at his original trial in 2018.
Proposals that would see UK whistleblowers paid for information they give to the Serious Fraud Office to help crack financial crime cases were set out in a consultation paper on Monday. The paper noted that companies might report problems sooner if they believed that employees could report misconduct for a financial reward. It pointed to the successful use of incentivization schemes in the US and Canada.
By Martin Coyle ( October 12, 2026, 23:09 GMT | Insight) -- The UK's fraud agency has opened a new direct line of communication
By: Martin Coyle
The UK's fraud agency said that it wants more companies to report wrongdoing themselves and take advantage of its rarely-used plea deal system as it opened a new line of communication for corporate legal advisors to discuss cases confidentially. The Serious Fraud Office, or SFO has secured only 13 Deferred Prosecution Agreements, or DPAs, to settle wrongdoing since the regime started in 2014.
By Martin Coyle ( October 13, 2026, 15:40 GMT | Comment) -- Government backing for calls by the UK's Serious Fraud Office to boost
Three former traders from Barclays and one from Deutsche have had their bans from working in the UK’s financial industry overturned following the quashing of their criminal convictions last week. The four had been convicted between 2016 and 2019 of manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, a benchmark short-term interest rate calculated from estimates from leading banks which has since been phased out.
By Martin Coyle ( October 20, 2026, 14:05 GMT | Insight) -- ING has been prevented from immediately terminating its banking relationship
By Martin Coyle ( October 22, 2026, 13:46 GMT | Insight) -- Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase's Irish unit has been fined €3. million by
By Martin Coyle ( October 23, 2026, 14:31 GMT | Comment) -- A seismic testing company that's the first to have breached the terms
