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Fraud offences in the UK rose 5% in the 12 months ending September 2014 year-on-year according to the country’s national fraud and cybercrime reporting centre Action Fraud. It recorded 213,000 instances: four per 1,000 (0.4%) people.

The UK’s Office for National Statistics meanwhile has reported that 5.2% of bank and credit card owners in England and Wales suffered from card fraud over the same period, compared with 4.6% in 2012/2013.…

Plastic banknotes have been in circulation since their introduction in Australia in 1988 and the consensus so far seems to be that they do an excellent job of a key requirement – reducing counterfeiting. It may be that forgers will gain more expertise in time – faking is considerably more difficult on plastic than on cotton-based paper – but the initial reports from larger countries that have taken this route, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, have persuaded the UK’s Bank of England to follow them.

Plastic banknotes have been in circulation since their introduction in Australia in 1988 and the consensus so far seems to be that they do an excellent job of a key requirement – reducing counterfeiting. It may be that forgers will gain more expertise in time – faking is considerably more difficult on plastic than on cotton-based paper – but the initial reports from larger countries that have taken this route, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, have persuaded the UK’s Bank of England to follow them.

NURSES should be well informed about the Ebola virus: how it is spreads; how it is transmitted; how they can protect themselves; what the preventative measures are; and above all, how to put on and take off the personal protective equipment.…

AS companies and government organisations implement more stringent fraud detection programmes, they are recruiting the best and brightest anti-fraud experts. Universities in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia are responding to demand for anti-fraud expertise by offering fraud prevention classes in accounting, criminology, and business degrees.…

The Bangladesh cabinet on Monday (Nov 10) finally proposed a long awaited law to regulate Bangladesh’s audit profession, which had been stalled amidst disagreements between auditors and management accountants

A draft Financial Reporting Act will now be presented for a vote by the country’s parliament, the Jatiyo Sangshad, although the government has yet to release full details.…

Over the past few years, Spain’s government has regularly questioned whether Gibraltar’s excellent economic condition has more to do with money laundering, smuggling and tax evasion than good business practice. “The wealth that Gibraltar enjoys cannot continue to be based solely on an economy that is clearly damaging for our country and for the European Union,” said Spain’s minister for European affairs Íñigo Méndez de Vigo in an interview with the Spanish newspaper ABC in September 2013.…

Tougher security regulations are restricting the ability of airport managers to provide adequate car and bus parking, a headache given these services are a frequent target of consumer advocacy groups. Complaints range typically from price through availability to ease and airports of all sizes need to balance customer satisfaction against the need for revenue and the demands made by security regulations.…

Big data is creating a growing range of opportunities that can help the global pharmaceutical industry develop and manufacture drugs more effectively. However, the industry faces a number of challenges in the way it manages and analyses the increasingly broad range of data that is available, with collaboration essential for the industry to capitalise on the potential of the big data explosion.…

DETAILED sentencing guidance for judges and magistrates in England and Wales trying fraud, money laundering and bribery cases has been released, stressing non-financial harm to victims must be taken into account along with monetary losses.

The Sentencing Council for England and Wales has released comprehensive sentencing tables categorising the judicial response to each of 20 financial crimes, where proven, taking account of a criminal’s role, the vulnerability of the victim, the scale of the scam and suffering caused. …