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  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Beny Steinmetz
    Beny Steinmetz found guilty of bribery

    Swiss court sentences Israeli businessman to 5 years in prison over Guinea natural resources case

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Law
    New York’s investigation of cryptocurrency Tether hits fresh delay

    Parent company faces allegation of ‘covering up’ loss of $850m in company and customer funds

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Investments
    London Capital & Finance investors entitled to payouts, court told

    Judicial review begins into lifeboat fund’s decision to compensate only fifth of customers

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    Why banks should not bear all the burden of Britain’s scam culture 

    The cost of soaring online fraud should be shared by other companies

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Wirecard AG
    Deutsche board member urged ex-Wirecard CEO to ‘do [the FT] in!!’

    Austrian financier Alexander Schütz called on Markus Braun to do more to rebut FT’s critical reporting

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Wirecard AG
    Commerzbank suspends coverage of groups tracked by former Wirecard analyst

    Move comes after it emerged that Heike Pauls had briefed payment group’s managers about hedge fund’s criticism

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    Wirecard AG
    Commerzbank warned BaFin about Wirecard in early 2020

    German lender severed some ties with the payments group after internal review

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    Money laundering
    Money transfer company hit with £24m money laundering fine by HMRC

    MT Global’s ‘significant breaches’ of regulations include failures to conduct risk assessments

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    Tax evasion and avoidance
    Denmark charges two UK nationals over $1.6bn tax fraud

    Move is part of sprawling European investigation into share trading dividend scam

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  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    Financial fraud
    Tech groups told to give better protection against online fraud

    Police and regulators tell MPs that billions might have been lost to pension scams

  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    Financial services
    EU urged to push UK harder on tackling tax avoidance and money laundering

    MEPs warn of weaknesses in Brexit deal over financial transparency provisions

  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    MF DOOM: three lessons on business and finance

    “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, after you who’s last? It’s DOOM he’s the worst known”

  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    News in-depthMoney laundering
    Why business is worried about trade-based money laundering

    Financial crime watchdog sees cases involving everything from soft fruit to luxury cars

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    Personal Finance
    On the first day of Christmas I filed my tax return

    HMRC warns of risk of fraud from phishing scams and copycat websites

  • Sunday, 20 December, 2020
    The Big Read
    ‘A giant bonfire of taxpayers’ money’: fraud and the UK pandemic loan scheme

    The bounce back plan offered a lifeline to struggling companies. But more than half the £43bn lent so far could be lost

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    European banks
    Switzerland charges Credit Suisse in money laundering case

    Bank responds with ‘astonishment’ and pledges to ‘defend itself vigorously’

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Wirecard AG
    Former German defence minister defends his Wirecard lobbying

    Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg tells MPs the disgraced payments company ‘deceived us all’

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    Insider trading
    Ex-UBS employee and day trader lose appeal over insider trading

    Criminal Court of Appeal upholds convictions following high-profile trial last year

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    Inside BusinessJohn Plender
    White collar crime and punishment is still out of kilter

    ING case highlights how few executives have been held to account for actions under their watch

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    US banks
    US to shift burden from banks in overhaul of money laundering laws

    Companies will have to register their beneficial owners directly with US Treasury

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Could your child be recruited as a money mule?

    Huge rise in online fraud sees criminals target students to spirit away the proceeds

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    News in-depthUS financial regulation
    US banks welcome delay to Libor switch affecting $200tn in assets

    Financial industry has been struggling to make the shift away from the US dollar rate

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    Benchmark reform
    Banks set to be granted reprieve on US Libor cut-off deadline

    Benchmark underpinning $200tn in contracts will be published as late as 2023 under new plan

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Personal Finance
    Online fraud surges ahead of Black Friday

    Attempted payment frauds 385 per cent higher than a year ago

  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    Ernst & Young
    EY faces mounting pressure to disclose Wirecard details to German parliament

    Defunct payments provider’s management and supervisory boards release Big Four firm from duty of confidentiality

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