FCA v. Edward John Booth (2018)

Settled

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In July 2018 the FCA issued a final notice prohibiting Edward John Booth, a director of online credit broker Secure My Money Limited, from performing any regulated function, after he settled early. The notice finds he let the firm give customers false and misleading information about loan offers and fees. It is unrelated to market manipulation, and no financial penalty is stated.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency	FCA
Date filed	2018-07-25
Date resolved	2018-07-25
Status	settled
Criminal parallel	No
Bars imposed	prohibition order
Defendants	Edward John Booth (individual)
Techniques

What was ordered

Civil penalty: —
Disgorgement: —
Prejudgment interest: —
Total relief: —
Alleged gain: —

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

the Financial Conduct Authority announced this matter on July 25, 2018. The respondents named are Edward John Booth (1 individual, 0 entities).

This notice concerns an unrelated credit-broker fraud. Its one use of "churning" is Booth's own metaphor, quoted from an interview, about "churning people's information round and round" — not a finding that he churned any account. This library does not tag the matter with any technique.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the release.

Timeline

2018-07-25 FCA final notice

Primary documents

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FCA final notice

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Record added September 10, 2026. submit a correction.