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Financial fraud

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Michael Lynch
    HPE chief defends ‘difficult’ decision to pursue $4bn case against Mike Lynch estate

    Antonio Neri says company will ‘see through’ effort to seek damages in UK court despite death of former Autonomy chief

    Antonio Neri
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    How to inoculate the world against a payment fraud pandemic

    Policymakers and police must work together on prevention while individuals should take more responsibility

    People in Greenwich Park with a view of  Canary Wharf
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Wirecard AG
    Three former Wirecard executives found personally liable for €140mn

    Munich court rules Markus Braun and others violated duties over loans to suspicious businesses

    From left, Susanne Steidl, Markus Braun and Alexander von Knoop
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    U-turn on fraud refunds prompts UK payment companies to call for more changes

    Regulators have angered consumer groups by slashing the compensation limit on scams to £85,000

    Canary Wharf, London
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    UK banks
    UK regulator to slash maximum fraud losses banks are forced to cover

    Proposed payout limit expected to be cut from £415,000 to £85,000 after industry lobbying

    Men entering credit card information using laptop computer keyboard.
  • Sunday, 1 September, 2024
    Nigerian fintech chief fined $250mn after holdings described as a ‘fiction’

    Decision against Dozy Mmobuosi by US court comes after civil complaint by SEC against his Nasdaq-listed companies

  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Financial services
    Central Bank of Eswatini > SEC

    Could do better. C–

  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Lucy Warwick-Ching
    How can I avoid art investment scams?

    As a newcomer to the market, I’m worried about falling victim to fraud

  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    There’s a reason online fraud elicits such a visceral response

    It exploits fellow feeling and gnaws away at the foundations of a civilised society

    Ewan White illustration of an old lady sticking needles in a voodoo doll
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    ExplainerFinancial & markets regulation
    The fight over the UK’s fraud compensation scheme

    Forcing banks to refund £415,000 opens door to fresh scams, industry warns

    Montage of Canary Wharf banks, a mobile phone payment and a shadowy man with a laptop computer
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Wirecard AG
    Two more former Wirecard executives charged in sprawling criminal investigation

    Ex-finance chief and former chief product officer accused of having failed to fulfil legal obligations to now-collapsed group

    Wirecard’s former chief financial officer Alexander von Knoop and its former chief product officer Susanne Steidl face prison terms of up to 15 years if they are found guilty on all counts
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    UK banks
    Some UK banks fully refund fraud losses in less than 10% of cases, says regulator

    New rules in October will make reimbursement compulsory

    A woman counts banknotes next to a cash machine
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Technology sector
    Founder of SoftBank-backed app IRL accused of fraud by SEC

    Abraham Shafi allegedly hoodwinked backers and spent millions of dollars on personal expenses

    A montage of Abraham Shafi in front of the IRL app logo and
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Financial & markets regulation
    US charges short seller Andrew Left with fraud

    Department of Justice alleges Citron Research founder netted at least $16mn from ‘long-running market manipulation scheme’

  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Chinese businessman Guo Wengui convicted of fraud in US court

    Self-exiled Communist party critic and associate of Steve Bannon fleeced his online followers, prosecutors said

    A courtroom sketch of Guo Wengui in Manhattan federal court
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Bill Hwang
    Archegos founder Bill Hwang found guilty over fund’s collapse

    Implosion in 2021 sent shockwaves through US equity markets and cost Wall Street banks billions of dollars

    Bill Hwang
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank settles with trader who alleged he was Libor ‘fall guy’

    Matthew Connolly had sought $150mn from the bank after his exoneration in rate-rigging case

    Matthew Connolly
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Archegos Capital Management
    US urges jury to convict Archegos’ Hwang: ‘what happened here was fraud’

    Closing arguments cap eight-week trial in which lawyers for former trader say government failed to prove its case

    Bill Hwang, left, arriving at the Manhattan federal courthouse on Monday morning
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Vatican
    Senior Vatican cleric accused of lying to court in London lawsuit

    Archbishop appeared as part of proceedings brought by financier found guilty of embezzlement

    Venezuelan archbishop Edgar Robinson Peña Parra in Vatican city, Rome
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour plans to force tech giants to compensate online fraud victims

    Proposal follows controversial UK rules that place the burden on banks

    A woman using a laptop as she holds a bank card
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Retail sector
    Former BHS directors told to repay at least £18mn to help cover losses

    Landmark ruling finds two individuals liable in lawsuit brought by liquidators to collapsed retailer

    Shoppers walk past the boarded-up BHS store in Oxford Street London
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    UK payments watchdog rejects industry call to delay fraud refund plan

    Payment Systems Regulator says new rules on compensation for authorised push payment fraud will take effect in October

    A person types on a laptop while holding a bank card
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Allianz Global Investors AG
    Lead fund manager in Allianz fraud case pleads guilty

    Gregoire Tournant admits role in scheme to hide risks from investors in investment strategy that suffered heavy losses

    Former Allianz fund manager Gregoire Tournant and his attorney Daniel Alonso arrive at Manhattan federal court
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Michael Lynch
    How Mike Lynch walked free after his decade-long US legal saga

    Prosecutors struggled to connect Autonomy founder to alleged fraud while he made his case to the jury

    A montage of Mike Lynch and the logos of HP, Autonomy and the seal of the US District Court in California
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Michael Lynch
    Former Autonomy chief Mike Lynch acquitted in US fraud trial

    UK tech entrepreneur had been extradited to face criminal case over $11bn sale to HP in 2011

    Mike Lynch
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