Financial Conduct Authority · External Intelligence
CEO banned for false and misleading statements made in attempt to buy bank and football club
- Source
- Financial Conduct Authority
- Published
- 14 September 2026
- Journal
- Regulatory Enforcement
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom
Lynx Summary
The Financial Conduct Authority fined Paul Taylor, previously CEO at Blue Horizon Asset Management, £489,000 and barred him from financial services, while former managing director Esmeralda Toni received a £121,200 fine and a ban for serious misconduct. Taylor supplied misleading statements and falsified information in attempts to acquire a bank and a football club; during the bank bid, Toni knowingly helped him mislead the bank and falsify documents asserting his ownership of a bond portfolio valued at about €200 million.
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