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Financial fraud

  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    BGC Partners Inc
    Former BGC employee faces prison after breaching asset freeze order

    Judge tells Michael Viney ‘custody threshold has been crossed’ after he sold a flat in Barcelona

    A BGC sign at the company’s office in Canary Wharf, London, England
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    FT Magazine
    Inside the disastrous collapse of Naomi Campbell’s charity

    The world’s most famous supermodel tells a tale of stolen identity, siphoned funds and friendship betrayed

    Portrait of a woman with long, straight dark hair and a symmetrical center part, dressed in a shimmering halter top made of circular metallic elements, smiling
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    UK business
    Banks and tech groups commit to live data-sharing in UK fraud clampdown

    Industry-led initiative promises to beat existing scam-monitoring systems

    Hands typing on laptop keyboard while holding a credit card
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Libor scandal
    Tom Hayes asks UK Supreme Court to overturn Libor-rigging conviction

    Ex-UBS trader jailed over benchmark-rate manipulation takes fight to Britain’s highest court

    Tom Hayes outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London earlier this month
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Financial ThinkingJonathan Guthrie
    How to de-fang a fraudster

    Criminals don’t need to break into our homes, if they’re already in our heads

    The illustration is split into two contrasting halves: the left side shows a stormy night where a wolf, disguised in a headscarf, raincoat, and handbag, approaches a house. The right side depicts the warm interior of a home, where a man, looking slightly puzzled, gestures for the visitor to enter
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Private credit
    Failed TDR-backed finance firm ‘misrepresented’ performance

    Artis Finance told bondholders that misleading ‘amendments’ were made to key documents

    Person holding mobile phone with business logo of British investment firm TDR Capital
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Claer Barrett
    Will the police really try to find your stolen iPhone?

    Even with the resources to chase after all our stolen handsets, let’s not kid ourselves it would solve the problem

    Thief snatching a mobile phone
  • Sunday, 23 February, 2025
    Companies House UK
    UK companies pay less than half of fines issued for filing accounts late

    Disparity raises questions about ability of Companies House to tackle non-compliance

    exterior of companies house building
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    The Big Read
    Is the UK failing victims of fraud?

    A new compensation scheme is meant to protect against push payment scams, but experts say the system itself is in urgent need of repair

    A hand holding a credit card against a red background with warning symbols and bar graphs, suggesting financial risk or fraud
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Think you’re too smart to be caught by scammers? Think again

    From ‘pig butchering’ to ‘CEO scams’ — Nick Stapleton uncovers a new breed of stings aimed at the wealthy, many using AI

    Illustration of three people caught in a spider’s web as victims of different scams
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    Wirecard AG
    Prosecutors drop some charges against former Wirecard chief

    Decision announced in effort to speed up case that has been under way since December 2022

    Markus Braun
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Fintech
    Failed fintech Stenn took millions from Serbian groups aping blue-chips

    Documents show HSBC uncovered ‘extensive and systemic’ invoice issues at UK start-up

    A montage of the logo of Stenn Technologies and US dollar notes
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Wirecard AG
    Marsalek confidant describes friendship with ‘socially awkward’ Wirecard executive

    James Henry O’Sullivan describes to Singapore court seeing evidence executive had accessed journalist’s phone

    British defendant James Henry O’Sullivan
  • Sunday, 9 February, 2025
    Italy
    Italian tycoons targeted by fake defence minister in suspected AI scam

    Computer-generated voice of Guido Crosetto persuaded at least one victim to pay €1mn for hostage ransom

    Guido Crosetto
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    Insider trading
    Ex-Goldman analyst ordered to pay £587,000 for insider dealing

    London court gives Mohammed Zina three months to pay the amount that is available from current assets

    Mohammed Zina leaving his trial at Southwark Crown Court in London, England, in February 2024
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    Rene Benko
    Property tycoon René Benko arrested in Austria

    Signa founder taken into custody more than a year after collapse of his property conglomerate

    Austrian real estate, media and retail investor and founder of the Signa Holding Rene Benko
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    UK financial regulation
    FCA calls for politicians to define acceptable level of consumer harm

    Head of regulator warns easing controls on mortgage lending risks more defaults and repossessions

    FCA chief executive Nikhil Rathi
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Do Kwon
    Ex-crypto chief Do Kwon brought to New York to face fraud charges

    New indictment adds count of money laundering to case against Terraform Labs co-founder

    Do Kwon
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Should banks foot the bill for cyber scams?

    Governments, banks and tech companies disagree on who should cover losses from payment fraud

  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    UK Serious Fraud Office spent £16mn on botched Unaoil investigation

    Costs breakdown provided after prosecutor lost bid to block FT freedom of information request

    The Serious Fraud Office in central London
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    EY
    EY accused of helping UAE company defraud Spac investors

    Lawsuit alleges auditor played ‘pivotal role in a years’ long scheme’ at Brooge Energy

    EY’s offfices in London
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Financial services
    JPMorgan, BofA and Wells sued over alleged payment fraud

    US regulator CFPB accuses big banks of failing to protect customers using Zelle

    A JPMorgan Chase branch in New York
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    UK SFO charges five over collapse of law firm Axiom Ince

    Alleged offences include fraud, forgery and improper use of £60mn in client money

    The new logo of the serious fraud office in central London
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    WealthTek boss charged with £64mn fraud to fund ‘lavish lifestyle’

    FCA alleges John Dance used client funds to buy racehorses and a Newcastle nightclub

    The Financial Conduct Authority
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    FT Film31 min
    Lars Windhorst and H2O: scandal, spies and the superyacht

    Windhorst talks about his biggest scandals as the FT asks: where did all the money go?

    Windhorst: scandal, spies & a superyacht
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