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Financial fraud

  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Standard Chartered PLC
    Standard Chartered hit with $2.7bn lawsuit over 1MDB scandal

    Liquidators still trying to recoup billions of dollars siphoned from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund and then laundered

    Standard Chartered signage in Singapore
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    1Malaysia Development Bhd
    Former Goldman banker sentenced to two years in prison for 1MDB role

    Tim Leissner helped divert billions in Malaysian funds to corrupt officials but pleaded guilty and aided prosecutors

    Tim Leissner arriving at court in Brooklyn, New York
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    UK fraud ‘blight’ prompts calls for action to protect consumers

    Experts say a ‘systemic’ solution is required as scammers adopt new methods and increase unauthorised losses

    A woman holds a credit card in one hand and a mobile phone in the other
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    News in-depthSingapore
    ‘Rich and naive’: why Singapore is engulfed in a ‘scamdemic’

    City-state residents who spend a lot of time online and are naturally compliant with authority are especially vulnerable

    People gather along a waterfront promenade at night with Singapore’s illuminated skyline in the background
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    JPMorgan Chase & Co
    JPMorgan London trader unfairly dismissed despite spoofing

    Judge in employment tribunal found cocoa trader was not provided with correct documents during disciplinary probe

    A sign outside the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    How to block the financial scammers on social media

    Big Tech should have a legal duty to check investment advertisers are authorised

    Close up woman paying online by credit card, using smartphone
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    Consumers warned as ‘cloning’ scams jump by 57%

    Investment Association members report rising frauds using copies of genuine providers’ materials

    person with code on computer
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Ex-BGC tax adviser jailed for failing to repay group after fraud

    Michael Viney found to have devised scheme to hide funds he was meant to return to former employer

    BGC’s logo on the side of a building in London, England
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Credit Suisse Group AG
    Credit Suisse to pay $511mn over helping Americans hide more than $4bn

    Swiss bank admits it violated previous deal with the US justice department

    The Credit Suisse logo
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Q&APersonal Finance
    The rise of deepfake scams — and how not to fall for one

    Many social media promotions appear to be hosted by senior finance figures, but they’re fake

    Example of deepfake avatars of Martin Wolf promoted in adverts on Facebook and Instagram
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    Playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with Meta over my fraudulent avatars

    How is it possible that a company with such huge resources, including artificial intelligence tools, cannot deal with this?

  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    BGC Partners Inc
    Former BGC employee faces prison after breaching asset freeze order

    Judge tells Michael Viney ‘custody threshold has been crossed’ after he sold a flat in Barcelona

    A BGC sign at the company’s office in Canary Wharf, London, England
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    FT Magazine
    Inside the disastrous collapse of Naomi Campbell’s charity

    The world’s most famous supermodel tells a tale of stolen identity, siphoned funds and friendship betrayed

    Portrait of a woman with long, straight dark hair and a symmetrical center part, dressed in a shimmering halter top made of circular metallic elements, smiling
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    UK business
    Banks and tech groups commit to live data-sharing in UK fraud clampdown

    Industry-led initiative promises to beat existing scam-monitoring systems

    Hands typing on laptop keyboard while holding a credit card
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Libor scandal
    Tom Hayes asks UK Supreme Court to overturn Libor-rigging conviction

    Ex-UBS trader jailed over benchmark-rate manipulation takes fight to Britain’s highest court

    Tom Hayes outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London earlier this month
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Financial ThinkingJonathan Guthrie
    How to de-fang a fraudster

    Criminals don’t need to break into our homes, if they’re already in our heads

    The illustration is split into two contrasting halves: the left side shows a stormy night where a wolf, disguised in a headscarf, raincoat, and handbag, approaches a house. The right side depicts the warm interior of a home, where a man, looking slightly puzzled, gestures for the visitor to enter
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Private credit
    Failed TDR-backed finance firm ‘misrepresented’ performance

    Artis Finance told bondholders that misleading ‘amendments’ were made to key documents

    Person holding mobile phone with business logo of British investment firm TDR Capital
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Claer Barrett
    Will the police really try to find your stolen iPhone?

    Even with the resources to chase after all our stolen handsets, let’s not kid ourselves it would solve the problem

    Thief snatching a mobile phone
  • Sunday, 23 February, 2025
    Companies House UK
    UK companies pay less than half of fines issued for filing accounts late

    Disparity raises questions about ability of Companies House to tackle non-compliance

    exterior of companies house building
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    The Big Read
    Is the UK failing victims of fraud?

    A new compensation scheme is meant to protect against push payment scams, but experts say the system itself is in urgent need of repair

    A hand holding a credit card against a red background with warning symbols and bar graphs, suggesting financial risk or fraud
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Think you’re too smart to be caught by scammers? Think again

    From ‘pig butchering’ to ‘CEO scams’ — Nick Stapleton uncovers a new breed of stings aimed at the wealthy, many using AI

    Illustration of three people caught in a spider’s web as victims of different scams
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    Wirecard AG
    Prosecutors drop some charges against former Wirecard chief

    Decision announced in effort to speed up case that has been under way since December 2022

    Markus Braun
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Fintech
    Failed fintech Stenn took millions from Serbian groups aping blue-chips

    Documents show HSBC uncovered ‘extensive and systemic’ invoice issues at UK start-up

    A montage of the logo of Stenn Technologies and US dollar notes
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Wirecard AG
    Marsalek confidant describes friendship with ‘socially awkward’ Wirecard executive

    James Henry O’Sullivan describes to Singapore court seeing evidence executive had accessed journalist’s phone

    British defendant James Henry O’Sullivan
  • Sunday, 9 February, 2025
    Italy
    Italian tycoons targeted by fake defence minister in suspected AI scam

    Computer-generated voice of Guido Crosetto persuaded at least one victim to pay €1mn for hostage ransom

    Guido Crosetto
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