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An overview of news, trends and research in the category Fraud in the UK:

Cybercrime and crisis insurance products to boom in coming years Insurance against a range of risks in the political risk and crisis management space are set to boom in the coming years, after a period of lacklustre profitability growth within the market.
13 September 2016
A three-tiered approach for a customer centric view on fraud Criminals target financial institutions because that’s where the money is, says Hugo Löwinger, consultant at Innopay.
21 July 2016
Volkswagen Dieselgate costs society 29 billion say scientists Volkswagen’s tampering with its software, to give a considerably lower emission reading than on the road measure during testing, have resulted in €29 billion worth of damages to society.
04 February 2016
Fighting the 40 billion food fraud to protect food supply Food safety has been an issue in recent years, from the powdered baby milk formula contaminated with dangerous levels of melamine to horse meat sold as beef.
01 February 2016
PKF Littlejohn: Fraud costs NHS over 5 billion a year Fraud and error cost the global healthcare system around £299 billion, a recent study claims.
05 January 2016
KPMG launches internal probe into audits of FIFA KPMG International has launched an internal probe into its Swiss arm’s audits of FIFA.
29 September 2015
Imitation clothing cost UK retailers 3.6 billion per year The UK clothing industry loses more than €3.6 billion per year due to counterfeit clothing being sold in its market. An analysis by Consultancy.
17 September 2015
Training and compliance top anti-corruption approach Corruption and other criminal activity have been shown to be systematic even in countries with rigorous legal systems.
02 June 2015
EY model helps deliver state-of-the-art cybersecurity The Internet of Things (IoT) is set to widely increase the number of ways human beings can connect with each other and their environment, however, with widening of interfaces comes a corresponding in
21 April 2015
Ex-Logica manager sentenced to 10 months in prison Last month Ryan Willmott plead guilty to charges of insider trading through which £30,000 of benefit was illegally derived.
03 April 2015
Former Logica advisor guilty to insider dealing Ryan Willmott, a former financial manager at IT-firm Logica, has pleaded guilty to insider trading. In the run to the deal, he irregularly dealt with shares, taking a profit of around £30,000.
04 March 2015
KPMG: Cybercriminals moving from mass to personal Cybercrime in the year 2015 will be more personal as cyber-criminals will selectively target their victims instead of using mass spear-fishing tactics, says KPMG.
31 December 2014
Deloitte: Fraud costs UK Government 20.43 billion Fraud will this year cost the UK government more than £20 billion, according to a new report from professional services firm Deloitte and Reform.
31 October 2014
EY sponsors/contributes to FT Cyber Security Summit Next week, on September 3, Financial Times (FT) will organise the FT Cyber Security Summit in London.
28 August 2014
Grant Thornton launches Financial Crime and Disputes Accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton has last month announced the launch of a new dedicated Financial Crime and Disputes team in the UK.
12 August 2014
PwC and Ecorys: A lot of corruption in public procurement Corruption in public procurement costs the European Union billions on a yearly basis. On average between 3% and 4.4% of the overall value of public procurements ends up in the wrong place.
26 November 2013
ATK: most black money in construction and production The construction sector is known as a sector that is to a high extent subject to shadow economic activities. An investigation performed by A.T.
31 October 2013
PA Consulting Group: Innovation combats product fraud It is one of the nightmares of any consumer.
29 October 2013
A.T. Kearney: Shadow economy almost 20% of GDP The size of the European shadow economy is nearly one-fifth of its GDP. As a result of this enormous black market governments and tax services miss out on billions of income.
27 August 2013
Deloitte: Many suspicious transactions Cypriot banks Cypriot banks often have too little knowledge of their customers to be able to combat money laundering. This emerges from a study of the European Union in cooperation with accounting and consultancy Deloitte. The researche
22 May 2013
Deloitte investigates large scale money laundering The three largest private banks in India - ICICI, HDFC and Axis - have appointed Deloitte to conduct an independent inquiry into the allegations that the lenders have supported money laundering. The move comes after an onl
26 April 2013
Alvarez & Marsal: Bankers in Cyprus deleted fraud evidence According to a report by consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal commissioned by the Central Bank of Cyprus. Bankers in the hard-hit Bank of Cyprus have destroyed evidence about abhorrent activities
09 April 2013
Former E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year arrested for fraud Every year Ernst & Young organizes the prestigious event 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. The competition, hosted in more than 50 countries, appoints the best entrepreneur in each of the participating countries. The winn
28 February 2013
Deloitte partner jailed in the US due to insider trading In the United States former Deloitte partner Thomas Flanagan (65) has been convicted to 21 months in prison and a $100,000 fine for insider trading. Flanagan has worked 38 years for the consulting
19 January 2013
AT Kearney consultant pleads guilty for insider trading Sherif Mityas, a consultant at consulting firm A.T. Kearney, has admitted that he has used confidential information, which he had obtained during his work for the consulting firm to trade in shares.
03 April 2012

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