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HMRC fraud investigators recover UK£1billion proceeds of crime in five years
Online Published Date : 06 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2022 - 01 March 2022
By Sarah Gibbons
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UK retailers told to use SCA ID checks for online sales
Online Published Date : 12 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2022 - 01 March 2022
By Sara Lewis
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When the Quinces don’t care…
Online Published Date : 15 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2022 - 01 March 2022
Paul Brehony (+44 (0)20 3818 5300, paul.brehony@signaturelitigation.com) and Simon Fawell (+44 (0)20 3818 5300, simon.fawell@signaturelitigation.com) are partners at Signature Litigation LLP.
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Dark side: criminal use of artificial intelligence
Online Published Date : 19 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2022 - 01 March 2022
Richard Parlour (+44 (0)1727 845897, rp@fmli.co.uk) has been chairing the EU Task Force on Cybersecurity for the Financial Sector. He advises on financial markets, regulatory and compliance matters at Financial Markets Law International.
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Fighting back against Bounce Back Loan fraud
Online Published Date : 19 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2022 - 01 March 2022
Neil Williams, (+44 (0)203 781 8400, www.reeds.co.uk/staff/neil-williams/)is deputy head of complex crime at Reeds Solicitors.
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EY report finds ‘Say-Do’ integrity gap in the C-suite
Online Published Date : 20 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2022 - 01 March 2022
BySara Lewis
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No let-up: cyber (in)security
Online Published Date : 20 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2022 - 01 March 2022
Public or private sector – it matters not – face an ongoing barrage of cyber attacks, unabated in the past year, so keeping up the pressure of frauds and hacks that has intensified since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020. Rose Pengelly surveys the..
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Minister quits over UK government failure to tackle ‘rampant’ fraud
Online Published Date : 25 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2022 - 01 March 2022
Lord Theodore Agnew, minister with responsibility for countering fraud, resigned at the despatch box in the upper house on 24 January [2022], exasperated by Whitehall inaction: “Fraud in government is rampant,” he wrote in a Financial Times opinion..
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A unicorn falls – fantasy and fakery in Silicon Valley
Online Published Date : 27 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2022 - 01 March 2022
Esther Martin (esther.martin@informa.com), Assistant Editor
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NGO says UK fines and seizures should be ring-fenced for law enforcement budgets
Online Published Date : 28 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2022 - 01 March 2022
BySara Lewis
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Cross-border currents – Eastern Europe strives against corruption tag
Online Published Date : 28 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: February/March 2022 - 01 March 2022
ByKeith Nuthall
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Fraud drives up England & Wales crime through lockdown – ONS survey
Online Published Date : 31 January 2022 | Appeared in issue: April/May 2022 - 01 April 2022
Total crime rose 14%, comparing the year to September 2021 against the 12 months to September 2019, according to the Telephone Crime Survey for England & Wales (TCSEW), growth powered by a 47% increase in fraud and computer misuse. [1]If those..