About Us
The Midlands Fraud Forum is affiliated to The National Federation of Fraud Forums.
Information about the board, steering committee and sponsors can be found via the
menu.
Our Purpose
- To bring the public
and private sectors together to fight fraud and financial crime and to protect the
economy of the Midlands region.
- To promote fraud awareness
amongst its membership and organisations throughout the region.
- To create good practice
antifraud cultures by encouraging and developing antifraud strategies for its membership
to utilise.
- To establish a best
practice between its members for fraud prevention, investigation and detection.
- To help protect, stimulate
and encourage business growth in the region.
Our Objectives
- To help reduce fraud in the region.
- To provide a discussion forum for members and similar minded organisations within
the United Kingdom and overseas.
- To promote an open and co-operative environment between the membership in both the
public and private sectors.
- To encourage the recruitment of new members throughout the region.
- To establish sound working relationships with similar fraud forums in the UK and
overseas.
- To formulate strategic alliances by collaboration with relative consumer, law enforcement,
regulatory and charitable bodies.
- To identify fraud risks and define fraud methods to promote awareness and shared
good practice to enable the membership to manage fraud effectively.
- To organise conferences, seminars or masterclasses on subjects relating to its objects
in the fight against fraudulent actions.
- To develop and deliver a recognised training programme to assist members in their
management of antifraud strategies and development of fraud risk management controls
for the benefit of the membership.
- To identify fraud management opportunities with the emphasis on prevention and thereby
promote developments and research by seeking to arrange the publication of the results
of any antifraud strategies.
- To provide the opportunity through feedback and surveys to assess the general effectiveness
of the Midlands Fraud Forum initiatives.
- To seek to provide support and input to effective protective legislation and ensure
the promotion and adoption of security recommendations.
- Act as the common example for similar initiatives across the UK and overseas.