Fraud

Two-time Pulitzer Price winner John Carreyrou discusses his excellent book about the Theranos scandal, “Bad Blood,” and how Elizabeth Holmes conned everyone.  

Criminal Indictment Filed Charging Fraud The fallout continues for Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani, respectively the CEO and COO of Theranos. The pair were charged with fraud by the SEC and were indicted last week on wire fraud and conspiracy...

Leading organizations are increasingly integrating human and machine intelligence for forensic investigations.  By combining technological analysis—including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and statistical concepts of cognitive analytics—with deep investigator understanding of fraudster motives and methods, many are identifying, investigating and...

Artificial Intelligence Takes On Transactional Fraud In the field of fraud prediction, with transactional fraud raising every day; investors, board, management and business heads are keen to look at possibilities of detecting fraudulent transactions before they pass through the system....

Money Laundering Enters Real Estate In this article, Jay Ryan, Executive Vice President at Accuity discusses measures U.S. cities are taking to combat money laundering and how the scheme has evolved and became a successful tool for identifying real estate money-laundering risks, focusing on...

5 Steps to Prevent Loss Employee theft costs U.S. businesses an estimated $50 billion a year. For companies today, safeguarding against employee fraud should be a top priority. In this article we’ll explore a few ways that businesses can take...

How Effective and Efficient is Your Process? In-house investigation teams are expected to be agile to be able to help organizations in addressing cases that come from whistleblowing channels and sustaining the ethical standards of the organization. By supporting your...

with co-authors Paul Nash and Arturo del Castillo A Region-by-Region Analysis Organizations around the world are increasingly facing a diverse range of fraud-, cyber- and security-related challenges across a variety of sectors. The 10th edition of the Kroll Global Fraud...

Businesses are coming under increased scrutiny, to ensure that their domestic and foreign operations comply with anti-corruption and anti-bribery legislation. The risk of investigation has never been greater and the reputational risk, given the current media interest in these sorts...

The new amendment to the Anti-Unfair Competition Law has been first since it was enacted in 1993. The amended AUCL draws on the lessons learned during the past two decades to make some major changes.

Anti-money laundering measures are heavily weighted toward the financial sector, but most criminals have figured this out, and are turning to alternative—and often highly creative—ways to “legitimize” funds.  How directly an organization is involved in such schemes depends on multiple factors—but...

With the threat from money laundering and terrorist financing growing, anti-money laundering (AML) legislation has had to become more stringent in response. The regulatory burden has grown too much for compliance managers to bear on their own. Artificial intelligence (AI)...