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  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Promoted Content
  • 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’

  • 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

  • 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
    Bill Browder
    Browder threatens legal action over Magnitsky-linked Swiss accounts

    Kremlin critic says he will sue for sanctions breaches if Credit Suisse and UBS unfreeze assets

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    UK financial regulation
    Forex broker TFS-ICAP fined £3.4m for misleading clients

    FCA imposes penalty for encouraging trading with fake reports over 7-year period

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    Special ReportFT Intelligent Business
    Banks turn to AI as regulators press for Libor exit

    Financial institutions are under pressure to move faster on their switch from the scandal-hit benchmark

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Pensions industry
    Pension trustees set to block suspect transfers

    Estimated 40,000 UK retirement savers have been scammed since 2015

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Money MentorLindsay Cook
    ‘Why did Sainsbury’s cancel my grocery delivery?’

    Supermarket claimed fraudulent activity on customer accounts

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    Libor scandal
    Dollar Libor left behind in shift away from tainted benchmark

    Reform of lending rate embedded in everything from mortgages to derivatives poses huge challenges

  • Sunday, 25 October, 2020
    Fraudulent coronavirus loan applications going unreported

    At least £1.85bn could have been claimed dishonestly from UK government schemes

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    UK business & economy
    Furlough fraudsters stole as much as £3bn, says spending watchdog

    Gangs hijack identities and employers pocket cash claimed on behalf of staff, reports NAO

  • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
    Accountancy
    UK regulator proposes to beef up auditors’ obligation on fraud

    Reforms in accounting standard sought after series of scandals damaged industry’s reputation

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