Fraud and financial crime touch every regulated organisation, but the controls that actually prevent harm look different from the controls that satisfy a checklist.
These guides cover the legislative framework, the failure to prevent model, and what effective organisational fraud and corruption prevention looks like in practice. Written for compliance officers, fraud teams, MLROs, and senior managers in regulated firms.
Available guides
Three guides on fraud, bribery, and market abuse
Fraud prevention
The Scam Shield: Fortifying Against Fraud
Fraud is the most commonly reported crime in England and Wales. This guide covers the main fraud types, the current legislative framework including the failure to prevent fraud offence under ECCTA, the mandatory APP fraud reimbursement rules, and what effective organisational fraud prevention looks like in practice. It closes with a structured implementation checklist built around the government's six principles.
Read the guide →Bribery and corruption
Bribery, Corruption and the Modern Compliance Challenge
The Bribery Act 2010 is now fifteen years old, but very few organisations have a clear view of whether their adequate procedures would actually satisfy the standard if tested. This guide covers the legislative framework, the six principles defence, the 2025 update to ISO 37001, and what building a genuinely effective anti-bribery and corruption programme looks like in practice, from policy through to cultural change.
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Insider Dealing: An Operational Briefing
Insider dealing and market abuse remain a high enforcement priority for the FCA. This guide covers the legislative framework under UK MAR and the Criminal Justice Act 1993, the FCA's dual-track civil and criminal approach, the role of Suspicious Transaction and Order Reports, and the operational controls firms need to detect and prevent market abuse. Includes recent enforcement examples and the practical lessons they offer.
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A structured course on fraud and financial crime is in development.
Eight sessions covering the nature of fraud and financial crime, the legal framework, bribery and corruption, insider dealing, scams and consumer fraud, the failure to prevent model, investigation and response, and building a financial crime programme that holds up under regulatory scrutiny.
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