By Fran Marwood As a follower of our Fraud Academy blog, you may already be familiar with our Global Economic Crime Survey (“GECS”) and are also likely to have some form of responsibility for preventing bribery, corruption, fraud, or cyber security issues in your organisation. With this in mind, we’d...

By Ruk Permal and Anne-Marie Edmonds It’s been just over a year since the EU Market Abuse Regulation went live but today market abuse is still a key focus area for our clients and we are continuing to see a lot of activity in this space as clients look to...

By Matthew Russell With the Criminal Finances Bill recently receiving Royal Assent and the September implementation date for the new corporate offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion fast approaching, our clients are starting to think about what “reasonable procedures” look like in the context of their...

By Jonathan Holmes, Jonathan Roe and Pierre-Edouard Pichot Recent media coverage suggests fraud in the UK construction industry has never been more prevalent. Cases of bribery, cash-for-contracts, procurement scams and other alleged wrongdoing in the sector have hit the headlines in the past few months. The direct costs of such...

By Ruk Permal I was recently appointed as primary adviser to the FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) on market abuse and surveillance. Over the past few months, the team and I worked closely with FMSB leadership and its member firms to produce Statements of Good Practices on Surveillance. This document...

Over the month of December we ran our 2016 Fraud Academy Advent Calendar which included bite sized hot topics detailing threats your business should consider during the Festive period. These covered everything from supplier overindulgence, to the rise of corporate gifts and new and age old online scams your organisation...

By Mark Anderson Over five years have passed since the UK Bribery Act was passed into law. Few will disagree that much has changed in the world of anti-bribery and corruption compliance in that time, most of it for the better. But with the World Bank estimating that more than...

By Jonathan Holmes & Kelly McInnis At this time of year, we all have gift giving on our minds and this is no different in the corporate world. Gift giving is a long standing corporate tradition and it is especially popular during the holiday season so an appropriate time to...

You are invited to sign up for our Fraud Academy 2016 Advent Calendar. ‘The Fright before Christmas’ will include bite sized hot topics detailing threats your business should be considering this Festive period. Threats to your organisation The holiday season is a time to be merry but this time of...

Understanding your organisation’s threat landscape As part of the PwC Fraud Academy in the South East, we bring you a series of short video briefings with the aim of helping businesses prevent, detect and investigate fraud and economic crime. The final video in our series is below, along with links...