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  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Apple Inc
    Former Apple lawyer pleads guilty over insider trading scheme

    Senior director in legal department had been responsible for enforcing tech company’s insider trading rules

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Banks warn of fraud ‘epidemic’ as losses soar from authorised push payment scams

    Fake investments and fraudsters impersonating the police cost victims the most, says UK Finance

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Fraud epidemic: antidote urgently required

    Record levels of online fraud in the UK show a vastly different approach is needed

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Special ReportFT Wealth: July 2022
    Crypto swindlers prey on ethnic Chinese women looking for love

    Fraudsters establish online romances before duping victims in highly methodical cyber scams

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Competition & Markets Authority
    UK construction groups accused of ‘bid rigging’ in £150mn contracts

    Watchdog says cartels involving ten companies colluded on tenders in London and Midlands

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    Sharp rise in energy-related scams as household bills soar in Britain

    Consumer group Which? sounds alarm as people are targeted by increasingly sophisticated fraud attempts

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Why we trust fraudsters

    From Enron to Wirecard, elaborate scams can remain undetected long after the warning signs appear. What are investors missing?

  • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    SFO secures two convictions in green investment fraud

    Prosecution after seven-year inquiry into Brazil forestry scam rare good news for agency

  • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
    Interview
    Policing needs reform to tackle UK’s growing fraud problem

    Tackling surge in scams, especially online, is complicated by ‘higgledy-piggledy’ national approach, says England’s lead commissioner for economic and cyber crime

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    UK business & economy
    Covid fraudsters and embezzlers given ‘open goal’, say MPs

    Business department failed to identify risks of organised economic crime in support schemes

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Nigeria
    Nigeria’s top accountant arrested by anti-corruption agency

    Ahmed Idris in alleged $190mn ‘diversion of funds and money-laundering activities’

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    News in-depthBanca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA
    Monte dei Paschi battle rumbles on after verdicts quashed

    Thirteen executives acquitted of helping world’s oldest bank hide more than €2bn losses

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Regulator to force UK banks to offer scam victims compensation

    Announcement comes alongside government commitment to ensuring access to cash

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Instagram must stop the scammers targeting Gen Z

    Cloned accounts con followers of genuine financial content creators out of thousands

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Bounceback UK Covid loans used to fund Isis, court told

    Prosecutors claim former pub landlord sent money from government scheme to terrorist organisation

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Personal Finance
    Scammers target travellers as holiday spending returns

    Fake caravan bookings show biggest increase but flight fraud costs victims most

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    News in-depthArchegos Capital Management
    Bill Hwang case puts prosecutors’ market manipulation claim to the test

    Experts say US government may struggle to show Archegos Capital chief intended to artificially boost share prices

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    UK business & economy
    SFO outsources disclosure in G4S case after high-profile case failures

    Anti-graft agency appoints legal tech group Anexsys to help handle review of evidence to be shared with defence

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    News in-depthArchegos Capital Management
    Why did Wall Street loan billions to alleged fraudster Bill Hwang?

    Federal indictment against Archegos founder shines light on risk controls at sophisticated trading desks

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    FT Magazine
    On the hunt for oligarchs in the ‘wild west’ of corporate intelligence

    When the blow is finally delivered, it comes quick, polished and polite

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Archegos Capital Management
    Archegos founder Bill Hwang arrested on US fraud charges

    Prosecutors accuse hedge fund manager and former lieutenant of scheme that was ‘historic in scope’

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Coronavirus economic impact
    UK launches fraud squad to hunt down lost Covid billions

    Treasury to spend £25mn on new task force of data experts and investigators to be set up by summer

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    UK fraud agency intensifies probe into Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance

    SFO request documents and interview staff as part of continuing criminal investigation

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    UK business & economy
    UK banks need pushing to recover Covid business loans, say MPs

    Report accuses BEIS of being ‘complacent in preventing fraud’ over bounce back scheme

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Personal Finance
    A quarter of young people trust scam messages

    Fraudsters target UK shoppers on average twice a week, research finds

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