fraud

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned a scammer is operating practically on its doorstep under the name Brookes and Hargreaves.

Ex-GP Noble trustee Graham Pitcher has appealed his eight year prison sentence for his role in a £52m pension fraud.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned investors of a new boiler room scam operating under the same name as authorised firm LBV Asset Management.

Matthew Ames, son of troubled overseas property company Harlequin's chairman David Ames, has been accused of running a £1.6m "Ponzi scheme" under the guise of saving the rainforest, a court has heard.

A group of UK and Irish investors who lost money in a Portuguese property scheme which never built anything, has accused the Irish government of conspiring with the fraudsters, a claim vigorously denied by Irish government agencies.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a prohibition order against a financial adviser currently serving prison time for six counts of fraud.

A fraud case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was dealt a lifeline by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) after it 'declassified' the high cost case to attract barristers who initially refused to represent the defendants on recently reduced fees....

The UK arm of international advisory firm deVere Group has been the target of another cloning scam, with perpetrators imitating its advisers and forging business cards to dupe clients, the firm's UK chief has said today.

A gang of investment fraudsters who conned 73 people out of £700,000 have been jailed for up to six years at Southwark Crown Court.

The regulator's clamp-down on financial crime will have an effect on advisory firms who are often seen as the gate-keepers to financial services, a consultancy has said.