Fraud Intelligence

John Binns (+44 (0)20 7430 2277, jbinns@bcl.com) and Harry Travers (+44 (0)20 7430 2277, htravers@bcl.com) are partners in the Business Crime team at BCL Solicitors in London.

Aziz Rahman (0800 559 3500, aziz.rahman@rahmanravelli.co.uk) is senior partner at Rahman Ravelli.

By Sara Lewis

Matt Cox oversees fraud solutions for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at analytics software firm FICO. He blogs at www.fico.com/blog.

By Sara Lewis

Authorised push payment (APP) fraud rose 29%, to UK£456 million, in 2019, often originating through online platforms, says UK Finance, the banking trade body.Scams include investment offers, advertised on search engines and social media, romance..

Teresa Anaya is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator, Certified Bitcoin Professional, as well as being ITIL3 Certified. She serves as the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Officer for stable coin company Trust Token, where she is responsible for illicit activity monitoring. A stable coin is a cryptocurrency backed by a reserve asset.

By Keith Nuthall

By Sara Lewis

Alex Zeltcer is the founder and CEO of nSure.ai

LillianS. Hardy (+1 202637 5884, lillian.hardy@hoganlovells.com) is a partner in the Washington, D.C. officeof Hogan Lovells and Liam Naidoo (+44 20 7296 5887, liam.naidoo@hoganlovells.com) a partner and Danny Knowlesa litigation associate in the London office.Thestatistics in this article are derived from Hogan Lovells’ recently-publishedglobal study, High Seas: Steering the Course II - Navigating bribery andcorruption risk in 2020 (https://stc.hoganlovellsabc.com/), examining the challenges ofimplementing anti-bribery and corruption programmes. The study was based oninterviews with over 700 chief compliance officers (CCOs), heads of legal, orequivalent at some of the world’s largest organisations. In conjunction, HoganLovells’ annual Global Bribery & Corruption Outlook (https://bac-2020.hoganlovellsabc.com/) analyses the increased reach ofanti-bribery and corruption laws and looks ahead to the trends to be expectedin 2020.

Veronica Morino (veronica.morino@hibis.com) has worked on detection, prevention and investigation of international fraud and corruption for almost 20 years. Convinced, by experience, that raising awareness and focusing on prevention is far more cost-effective than investigation, she specialises in strengthening corporate defences against fraud and corruption. This includes the development of holistic desktop investigative research and analysis tools to explore organisations, business partners, suppliers and customers at a fraction of the resources normally associated with investigation. She is co-author of “The Anatomy of Fraud and Corruption”, published by Routledge (formerly Gower) in 2011. The author would like to thank Asia Chernova for her assistance in the preparation of this article.

Nicolas Brooke (nicolas.brooke@signaturelitigation.com)isa partner at Signature Litigation who advises on white-collar crime issues, theimplementation of compliance and remedial programmes, crisis management, aswell as civil fraud matters. Camille Gravis (camille.gravis@signaturelitigation.com)is an associate. specialising in internal investigations and compliance.