Financial

The Financial Conduct Authority is set to ramp up the industry's fight against scams and fraud amid the coronavirus outbreak, making this a key theme of its latest regulatory sandboxes.

Launching ahead of National Poetry Day on 1 October, ‘Santander’s Scam Sonnets’ aim to raise awareness of investment fraud - which is when a fraudster offers a fake but convincing opportunity to make a profit by handing over a sum of money.

Three Edinburgh residents have fallen victim to telephone banking fraud with each having five figure sums stolen from their bank accounts

The revelations of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists focus on the alleged failure of major international banks and supervisors to combat money laundering.

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The regulator has banned a financial adviser from carrying out any regulated activities after he was jailed for promoting two fraudulent investment schemes where investors lost more than £2.3m.

HSBC allowed fraudsters to transfer millions of dollars around the world even after it had learned of their scam, leaked secret files show.

Following a recent Freedom of Information request, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed that so far in 2020 no criminal prosecutions have been made under the current anti-money laundering (AML) legislation, and that it has discontinued half of its 14 investigations into possible breaches of AML rules in the UK.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reminded firms that compliance departments must keep information requests from the regulator strictly confidential to avoid compromising investigations.

The City watchdog’s failure to provide adequate supervision of firms could be to blame for the increase in scams linked to high-risk investment products, Pimfa has told MPs.

Financial services customers are operating with faster speed and greater agility in the payments space, now more than ever with the incremental volume of card-not-present transactions, accelerated adoption of contactless payments, and new financing options at the point-of-sale, among other key trends.