Work Area: Financial services misconduct investigations

In-house investigators at UK lender Standard Chartered launched on average at least one internal bribery probe per week in 2021.

17 February 2022

Featured in Investigator’s Guide to Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s financial markets regulator said that the bank’s culture encouraged “chasing revenue at the expense of basic standards of honesty”.

28 January 2022

The tax authority warned that upholding the High Court’s dismissal of the cum-ex lawsuit would make it almost impossible for overseas authorities to bring fraud claims in the UK.

25 January 2022

Featured in Investigator's Guide to Germany

German prosecutors have accused an investment fund manager of helping to launder more than €22 million in funds embezzled from collapsed payments company Wirecard.

14 January 2022

14 December 2021

14 December 2021

An independent body has provisionally decided not to instruct an appeals court to revisit the 2015 conviction of former UBS and Citibank trader Tom Hayes for rigging the Libor benchmark rate.

08 December 2021

06 December 2021

03 December 2021

The Financial Conduct Authority’s new ability to begin civil or criminal enforcement proceedings without consulting an independent committee will allow the agency to be more aggressive, lawyers said.

01 December 2021