4 posts categorised "Events"

05 February 2013

Corporate Codes of Conduct - do they continue to have a role in business?

Over the past twenty years corporate codes of conduct have moved from being emerging good practice to becoming an established norm, with the take-up by FTSE 100 companies increasing from 33% in 1993 to 80% in 2010 (Institute of Business Ethics). This move to formal codification of business ethics has...

06 August 2012

Prevention is better than the cure...

Rarely does a day go by without another headline announcing the latest victim of fraud. The scale and variety of fraudulent activity seems unprecedented, as does its frequency. Our recent Global Economic Crime Survey found that 51% of UK respondents had fallen victim in the last 12 months. The cost...

13 June 2011

Cyber: the new face of fraud

As investigators we tend to be very good at keeping up with latest trends; indeed many of us remember when credit card fraud and internet scams were new. As with any new fraud scheme, it’s natural for us to adapt accordingly, responding with new controls, monitoring techniques, detection methods and...

13 April 2011

Bringing business realities closer to expectations

Bit of an odd title, isn’t it? But in how many organisations does reality really line up with expectation? What would the financial benefit be if we could make this happen? In our upcoming breakfast briefing on May 4th, we discuss some of the advances in technology and analytics over...