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March 26, 2026
A former police officer and treasurer with the West Mercia Police Federation has been sent to prison after using members' funds to pay for family holidays, alcohol and entertainment.
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March 26, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority has been given a lead role in targeting money laundering, crypto-assets and money transfer scams in a government fraud strategy involving multiple agencies, which lawyers expect will boost enforcement action and heap a new compliance burden on financial institutions.
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March 25, 2026
Amazon has failed to strike out a class action over its allegedly abusive pricing policies which saw higher fees passed on to consumers, as a tribunal rejected the technology giant's argument that the proceedings are an abuse of process.
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March 25, 2026
Dentons on Wednesday sought to block allegations it breached anti-money laundering regulations being litigated before a tribunal for a second time, arguing at the Court of Appeal that the case had been rightly dismissed the first time.
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March 25, 2026
A London court declined on Wednesday to stop the extradition to India of jewelry magnate Nirav Modi over an alleged $2 billion fraud after accepting diplomatic assurances he wouldn't be tortured.
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March 25, 2026
Crispin Odey told a London tribunal on Wednesday that he denied trying to stop a member of staff who he had groped from speaking to the Financial Conduct Authority while it investigated his conduct at the hedge fund.
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March 25, 2026
The government floated plans on Wednesday to streamline the civil enforcement powers of corporate watchdogs to ban unscrupulous directors as it warned that as many as one million companies might be fraudulent.
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March 25, 2026
A Chinese man living in the U.K. has been ordered to explain how he built an £81 million ($108 million) property portfolio in London amid a wider investigation into whether the money was the proceeds of crime.
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March 25, 2026
Unicredit rightly withheld $69.3 million in payments to aircraft lessors for planes stranded in Russia, Britain's top court ruled Wednesday, as it found that the sanctions regime prevented the bank from making payments connected to the supply of aircraft to Russian airlines.
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March 24, 2026
A judge lawfully issued search and seizure warrants against a man convicted in Germany over a €58 million ($67.2 million) value-added tax "carousel" fraud, a London court has held, because there were reasonable grounds to suspect he had invested the proceeds in Bitcoin.
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March 24, 2026
Deutsche Bank urged the Court of Appeal on Tuesday to revive its bid to order Monaco-based billionaire Alexander Vik to answer questions about his company's assets, in the latest development in its effort to enforce a judgment debt of more than $360 million.
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March 24, 2026
BHP may not face criminal contempt proceedings over allegations it filed a case in Brazil to block English claims linked to the Fundão dam collapse, as a London appeals court has refused permission to take the case to the U.K.'s top court.
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March 24, 2026
Crispin Odey said on Tuesday that he regrets coming across to young receptionists as a "creepy old man," as his challenge to a ban and fine of £1.8 million ($2.4 million) for thwarting an internal probe into sexual misconduct allegations continues.
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March 24, 2026
Police arrested 557 individuals in February as part of the Operation Henhouse campaign against fraud, coordinated by the National Economic Crime Centre at the National Crime Agency and City of London Police, the NCA said Tuesday.
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March 24, 2026
Mike Lynch's estate has been refused permission to challenge a ruling that the entrepreneur fraudulently misled Hewlett Packard Enterprise over its acquisition of his software company as a court found on Tuesday that no proposed ground of appeal had a prospect of success.
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March 24, 2026
The Bank of England said Tuesday that it has fined Bank of London £2 million ($2.7 million) for failing to act with integrity and misleading the regulator on its capital holdings, which included providing several fabricated documents.
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March 23, 2026
A political donor's bid to secure an inheritance tax exemption on £1.7 million ($2.2 million) in Brexit campaign donations made as lifetime gifts has been dismissed by a London tribunal.
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March 23, 2026
An employment tribunal has ordered a manufacturer of sustainable water and energy systems to pay £30,792 ($41,330) to a warehouse operative, after finding he was wrongly fired over unfounded accusations that he was defrauding insurers to receive sick pay.
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March 23, 2026
A private investigator testified Monday that his signature had been forged on a witness statement in which he allegedly confessed to phone hacking, and which underpins privacy claims brought by Prince Harry, Elton John and other public figures against the Daily Mail's publisher.
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March 23, 2026
Four men accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars in get-rich-quick schemes have been convicted of fraud and money laundering, prosecutors said Monday.
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March 23, 2026
Bank of India told a London court on Monday that jewelry magnate Nirav Modi has failed to pay it $10.7 million after he guaranteed to cover loans to his diamond company.
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March 23, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said Monday that it will give Palantir Technologies Inc. access to its regulatory data as part of its efforts to crack down on financial crime by using artificial intelligence as a resource.
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March 20, 2026
The number of reports the FCA has received about misconduct by financial services firms has more than doubled in the last five years, law firm Littler has said.
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March 20, 2026
The U.K.'s finance regulator said Friday that it had ordered a consumer credit company to stop operating and to return funds to clients, saying it found that a senior manager at the company had been banned from running a company for a decade.
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March 20, 2026
Investors pursuing litigation over the alleged $4 billion OneCoin cryptocurrency fraud have struck a deal to lift a worldwide freezing order against a British financier.