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Four steps for beating procurement fraud - Financial Director
Fraud Procurement Procurement fraud is always a difficult subject. No one wants to think their employees or suppliers are trying to defraud them, but it’s imperative that companies keep on top of anti-fraud efforts. When these activities are discovered too late, it isn’t just the targeted companies who suffer. The financial cost for victims can be severe and the reputational fallout for the business even worse.
Tax theft is more prolific than you might think
Fraud For years the financial services sector has been a target for malicious attacks and breaches. You only have to look at some of the high-profile incidents over that time to see why the financial sector is so concerned about rising threats. For example nearly $100 million was stolen from Bangladesh’’s central bank in February 2016 and thieves found their way into what was thought to be the most secure financial messaging system in the world, SWIFT.
Why banks need to continue to take the fight to fraud
Fraud The UK banking industry has a billion-pound fraud problem, with £1.2bn lost to fraud and scams in 2018. There’s no shortage of statistics that further expose the sheer scale of the problem, such as recent findings from Experian that reveal a new incident of financial fraud was reported every 15 seconds in 2018.
SFO: friend or foe?
Fraud Last week’s announcement by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) that it will shortly publish further guidance to clarify its rules on self-reporting of fraud and corruption offences will doubtless have come as welcome news in many corporate boardrooms and the offices of their legal advisors, given the present level of uncertainty as to what a company can hope to achieve if it chooses to self-report.
Crisis and risk management: What’s in your yearbook?
Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia, Cambridge Analytics, Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, and State Attorney General Mark Herring, Enron, Harvey Weinstein, Tyco, Bill Cosby, Anthony Weiner, Wells Fargo, Roseanne Barr, Barings Bank, Bill Clinton, Martha Stewart, Tiger Woods, Volkswagen, Lance Armstrong, Brett Kavanaugh, Jussie Smollett. We all have skeletons in the closet, some are real, some are not, some are put there by others, some we put there ourselves. What’s in your closet?
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