fraud

An accountant has been sentenced to six years in prison after he was found guilty of running a £2.3m ‘Ponzi' scheme.

A financial adviser has been charged with 12 counts of fraud amounting to more than £1m.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned it has seen an increase in the number of regulated firms being cloned and wants firms to stay alert to the danger.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned a former mortgage adviser and insurance broker from working in the financial services industry after finding he had committed a string of offences including fraud.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned of a fraudster contacting consumers pretending to be an authorised IFA.

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has conceded it has little chance of recovering most of the £1.4m it lost due to fraud in 2012/13.

US prosecutors have hit Barclays with fraud charges which claim the British lender lied to investors about its dark pool electronic trading operations.

A fraudster who reaped £1.6m in VAT from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) by pretending to be a number of dead Hollywood film producers, has been jailed for more than three years.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has renewed calls for investors in one of the UK's largest Ponzi schemes to come forward and claim their share of the £914,000 "likely" available for distribution.

Government plans to overhaul the retirement process could increase the threat of pensions liberation fraud by overstretching administrators, warns the Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA).