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A chartered surveyor and property investor have been jailed for a total of 20 years after admitting their role in a £50m commercial mortgage fraud.

A bit of a pay war kicked off this week between the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the FSA. The head of the SFO wants to raise his staff’s salaries by 50% to put them on a par with their equivalents at the FSA.

The head of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) wants to raise salaries by 50% to put his staff on a par with those at the FSA, in a bid to stem a flow of departures and attract high-calibre recruits from private practice.

The Insolvency Service has said there will be no proceedings taken against Stewart Ford and the other Keydata directors.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has given up trying to prosecute anyone over the collapse of Keydata, as it has insufficient evidence to continue with the case, it has said.

China and the United States have agreed to hold economic talks as tensions between the world's two biggest economies continue to rise.

The Serious Fraud Office decided to drop an investigation into Equitable Life because financial regulators were already aware of potential criminal activity at the failed insurer, according to a new document.

An investment company director has been charged with fraud for running a 'Ponzi' scheme which lost investors £6m.

Lloyds Banking Group paid a £4.6m golden hello to its new chief executive, Antonio Horta-Osorio, to bring him across from Santander, it has been revealed.

Security organisations across two countries hunting those responsible for the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing arrested nine suspects in dawn raids this morning.