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Fraud Intelligence

Ready, steady, respond

Time is short to contain damage when fraud is suspected/detected so it is critical to plan ahead. Paul Cochrane looks at best practice to be prepared.More companies have ‘fraud response plans’ (FRPs) than ever before to try to mitigate..
Online Published Date:  31 July 2018

How local labour laws could stymie a fraud dismissal

French-born Audrey Milesi (info@flying-cfo.com) lived and worked in Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom before moving to Switzerland. Having started her career in external audit, she worked for a Big Four firm in Transaction Services, took on senior compliance roles at Syngenta and eBay, before launching Flying CFO, her own consultancy for internal controls, fraud and AML matters (www.flying-cfo.com).
Online Published Date:  31 July 2018

Unto the breach - cyber insurance

Even as firms do their best, if not always, to secure the digital perimeter, increasingly they recognise it may not be enough. Liz Newmark reports on how insurers are covering the information security risk.In today’s increasingly digital..
Online Published Date:  31 July 2018

Biometry – figuring you out

The ability to capture ever more physical and behavioural characteristics and compare them to a template without perceptible delay looks set to consign passwords to history - starting in the mobile device space. Jens Kastner picks up on the pace..
Online Published Date:  31 July 2018

How fear feeds CEO fraud

Britta Bohlinger MA, BSc (Hons), CFE (bb@risikoklar.org) is based in Berlin, Germany. She founded RisikoKlár (https://risikoklar.org) in Iceland, a not for profit organisation that aims to educate and empower individuals and organisations to understand and manage risk.
Online Published Date:  31 July 2018

Exceptional charges – expect more audit failures

David Eaton (+44 (0)7985 281168, dsaeaton@fraudriskanalysis.com  is the CEO of Fraud Risk Analysis (www.fraudriskanalysis.com), which analyses companies and other organisations from a risk of fraud perspective and raises ‘red flag’ findings where it believes there are grounds for potential concern.
Online Published Date:  31 July 2018

Looking out

Fraud – deception for gain – is nothing new: in its latest report, “Fraud Futures” [1], the UK Fraud Advisory Panel quotes the Old Testament: “Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the..
Online Published Date:  31 July 2018

SFO applies to reinstate charges against Barclays over Qatar funding

The UK Serious Fraud Office is seeking to reinstate charges against Barclays over funding it secured from Qatar during the financial crisis in 2008. In May this year, the case was dismissed at Southwark crown court. The prosecuting agency has..
Online Published Date:  31 July 2018

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