Fraud now accounts for 40% of crime in England and Wales. However, in this era of strained public finances, and the often international dimension to consumer fraud, the Government’s approach has often been to look to the...more
Imagine this – a customer submits a payment instruction directing that all their life savings are transferred to a third-party account for the purposes of an investment. What do you do? While the scenario may appear...more
2/15/2024
/ Banking Sector ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Crimes ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Fraud ,
Ombudsman ,
Payment Processors ,
Payment Systems ,
Reimbursements ,
Scams ,
UK
The FCA released its 2022/23 Annual Report last week together with data on its key enforcement trends. We consider below some of the key takeaways....more
7/28/2023
/ Annual Reports ,
Anti-Money Laundering ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Compliance ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Enforcement Statistics ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Crimes ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Fraud ,
Investigations ,
UK
New High Court case considers nature and scope of the Quincecare duty -
In June, the Court of Appeal expanded the scope of a bank’s duty of care to protect its customers from fraud to encompass instructions by those other...more
6/21/2022
/ Bank of England ,
Banks ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Climate Change ,
Criminal Liability ,
Duty of Care ,
Economic Sanctions ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Financial Accounting ,
Fraud ,
Insurance Industry ,
Member State ,
Money Laundering ,
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) ,
Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) ,
Risk Factors ,
Russia ,
Third-Party Service Provider ,
UK ,
UK Regulatory Reforms
“It has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked”. How, then, can a company be held criminally liable? Various jurisdictions have grappled with this question and recent developments in the UK have increased the...more
11/20/2020
/ Barclays ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Corporate Executives ,
Corporate Liability ,
Corporate Officers ,
English Common Law ,
Fraud ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act ,
UK Corporate Criminal Offense ,
Vicarious Liability