Financial crime resources

Find publications about our Financial Crime Public Commitment, including news, speeches, podcasts, events and external publications.

News

TitleDate
FCA finds gaps remain in brokers' money laundering defences[1]January 2025
Final Notice - Arian Financial LLP[2]January 2025
FCA charges John Dance with offences related to WealthTek[3]December 2024
Final Notice - Macquarie Bank Ltd, London[4]November 2024
FCA charges four individuals with fraud offences for failed credit union[5]November 2024
Final Notice - Barclays Bank[6]November 2024
Final Notice - Metro Bank[7]November 2024
FCA secures convictions against two individuals for £1.5m fraud[8]November 2024
Three individuals and two firms charged over alleged unauthorised business activities[9]November 2024
Final Notice - Starling Bank[10]October 2024
Olumide Osunkoya pleads guilty to illegally operating crypto ATM network[11]September 2024
PwC fined £15 million for failing to alert the FCA to suspected fraudulent activity at London Capital & Finance plc[12]August 2024
Individual charged with investment fraud over unauthorised multimillion pound ‘Kube Trading’ scheme[13]April 2024
Two individuals guilty of making £3m worth of fraudulent mortgage applications[14]November 2023
FCA fines ADM Investor Services International Limited £6,470,600 for serious financial crime control failings[15]October 2023
FCA launches review of treatment of Politically Exposed Persons[16]September 2023
The Treasury's cold calling ban consultation[17]August 2023
FCA fines Bastion Capital London Limited £2.5m for serious financial control failings[18]July 2023
Individual charged with fraud over unauthorised investment scheme[19]July 2023
Three individuals face charges for unauthorised sale-and-rent-back schemes[20]June 2023
Payment Systems Regulator publication on mandatory reimbursement of APP fraud[21]June 2023
FCA continues action against unregistered crypto ATMs across the UK[22]May 2023
Final Notice against David Nicholas King[23]May 2023
Andrew and Peter Currie sentenced to a combined 8 years for fleecing consumers through Collateral P2P platform[24]May 2023
Three individuals convicted and sentenced to a combined 24 and a half years for 'all-or-nothing’ investment fraud[25]April 2023
Four individuals face fraud charges[26]April 2023
OPBAS publishes report on legal and accountancy sector supervision[27]April 2023
Al Rayan Bank PLC fined[28]January 2023
Guaranty Trust Bank fined[29]January 2023
Five individuals face conspiracy to commit insider dealing and money laundering charges[30]January 2023
Santander UK PLC fined[31]December 2022
Final Notice against Mohammed Ataur Rahman Prodhan[32]November 2022
FCA fines The TJM Partnership Limited (in liquidation) £2 million for serious financial crime control failings in relation to cum-ex trading[33]July 2022
FCA fines insurance broker JLT Specialty Limited £7.8m for financial crime control failings[34]June 2022

 

FCA publications

TitleDate
Assessing and reducing the risk of money laundering through the markets[35]January 2025
Firms' use of the National Fraud Database and money mule account detection tools[36]January 2025
PS24/17: Financial Crime Guide updates[37]November 2024
AML Supervision by Legal and Accountancy Professional Body Supervisors[38]September 2024
Treatment of PEPs - multi-firm review[39]July 2024
Expectations of firms' controls regarding cash-based money laundering through cash deposits via the Post Office[40]April 2023
OPBAS multi-PBS review on Trust and Company Service Provider risk[41]March 2023
Dear CEO letter to payments firms[42]March 2023
OPBAS Sourcebook for professional body anti‑money laundering supervisors[43]January 2023
PS22/10: Strengthening our financial promotion rules for high‑risk investments and firms approving financial promotions[44]August 2022

 

Speeches and podcasts

TitleDate
A targeted and outcomes-based approach to tackling financial crime by Sarah Pritchard[45]September 2024
Frameworks for effective fraud prevention measures by Andrea Bowe[46]September 2024
Inside FCA Podcast: Fighting fraud and financial crime[47]August 2023
Do the right thing[48] - speech given by Therese ChambersJune 2023
How to change in response to changing threats[49] - speech given by Sarah PritchardMay 2023

Events

TitleDate
FCA webinar archive[50] 
TechSprint with City of London Corporation (COLC) and Smart Data Foundry on Authorised Push Payment (APP) Synthetic Data Launch[51]September 2023
Authorised Push Payment (APP) Fraud TechSprint[52] [53]September 2022

Campaigns and tools

Title 
5 questions to ask before you invest - InvestSmart[54] 
Be a ScamSmart investor - ScamSmart[55] 
FCA Warning List of unauthorised firms - Warning List[56] 

 

Key external publications

Title
UK Government - Understanding the cyber crime and fraud victim journey[57]
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023: Guidance to organisations on the offence of failure to prevent fraud[58]
Economic Crime Plan[59]
National Fraud Strategy[60]

 

: Information added Speech given by Steve Smart
: Editorial amendment Reordering lists with most recent updates at top
: Link added News under April 2024
: Information changed Correction: Mr Prodhan received a Final Notice in November 2022, not a fine.
First published: Last updated: 31/01/2025 See all updates

Financial crime[61]

Bribery and corruption[62]
Cash-based money laundering[40]
Cryptoassets: AML / CTF regime [63]
Data security[64]
Financial crime resources[65]
Fraud [66]
Money Laundering Regulations[67]
Payment Service Providers that repeatedly fail to provide information[68]
Reporting sanctions evasion page[69]
Reporting sanctions evasions[70]
Financial sanctions[71]
Financial crime systems and controls during coronavirus situation[72]
Money laundering and terrorist financing[73]

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