SFO

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) could be merged with a proposed National Crime Agency (NCA) as ministers target corporate corruption and fraud gangs which cost the UK £30bn a year.

The FSA has been accused of refusing to release key documents relating to the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) because of fears they will expose regulatory failings.

Tory MP Zac Goldsmith has pledged to take up the fight for Keydata investors after being contacted by an IFA with clients' money in the failed investment company.

Four MPs from Norfolk have pledged to get justice for investors with money caught up in failed investment firm Keydata.

The FSA will recruit 30 more lawyers and investigators to combat commercial crime, even as it faces being broken up, according to reports.

The Serious Fraud Office says the UK urgently needs a new centralised fraud database to combat rising financial crimes as the current FSA-run register is "clearly not working".

A former director of investment firm Imperial Consolidated Group has been sentenced 3 ½ years imprisonment for his part in a global fraud conspiracy.

Two men have been jailed over a boiler room scam in which they creamed off 80% of the invested funds.

Adviser firms must establish robust risk management and compliance procedures as the financial services industry prepares for tough regulatory reform, writes Michael Ralls from Kroll Background Worldwide.

George Osborne says a Tory Government would create an Economic Crime Agency to tackle white-collar crime and bin institutions like the SFO.