Financial crime resources

Publications relating to the Fighting Financial Crime area of our strategy, including news, speeches, podcasts, events, and useful external information.

News

Title	Date
Almost 5,000 fake FCA scams reported in first 6 months of 2025	August 2025
FCA secures convictions against individual for £1.3m Ponzi scheme	August 2025
Final Notice - Sigma Broking Limited	August 2025
FCA acts over alleged £23 million unauthorised collective investment scheme	July 2025

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Title	Date
H2O Deputy CEO fined £1m and banned from financial services for deliberately misleading FCA	July 2025
Seven crypto ATMs seized and two arrested on suspicion of running illegal cryptoasset exchange	July 2025
FCA closes 1,600 websites as it fights financial crime	July 2025
Two individuals sentenced to a combined 12 years for £1.5m crypto fraud	July 2025
Redinel Korfuzi and Oerta Korfuzi sentenced to combined 11 years for £1m insider dealing and money laundering	July 2025
Tribunal upholds the FCA’s market manipulation bans	July 2025
Final Notice - James Edward Staley	July 2025
Final Notice - Barclays Bank plc	July 2025
Final Notice - Barclays Bank UK plc	July 2025
Final Notice - Monzo Bank Ltd	July 2025
FCA secures guilty plea from John Burford in £1m investor fraud scheme	June 2025
FCA leads international crackdown on illegal finfluencers	June 2025
FCA bans former Credit Suisse vice president following US criminal conviction	May 2025
FCA confiscates over £300,000 from convicted fraudsters	May 2025
Final Notice - Mako Finanicial Markets Partnership LLP	February 2025
FCA finds gaps remain in brokers' money laundering defences	January 2025
Final Notice - Arian Financial LLP	January 2025
FCA charges John Dance with offences related to WealthTek	December 2024
Final Notice - Macquarie Bank Ltd, London	November 2024
FCA charges four individuals with fraud offences for failed credit union	November 2024
Final Notice - Barclays Bank	November 2024
Final Notice - Metro Bank	November 2024
FCA secures convictions against two individuals for £1.5m fraud	November 2024
Three individuals and two firms charged over alleged unauthorised business activities	November 2024
Final Notice - Starling Bank	October 2024
Olumide Osunkoya pleads guilty to illegally operating crypto ATM network	September 2024
PwC fined £15 million for failing to alert the FCA to suspected fraudulent activity at London Capital & Finance plc	August 2024
Individual charged with investment fraud over unauthorised multimillion pound ‘Kube Trading’ scheme	April 2024
Two individuals guilty of making £3m worth of fraudulent mortgage applications	November 2023
FCA fines ADM Investor Services International Limited £6,470,600 for serious financial crime control failings	October 2023
FCA launches review of treatment of Politically Exposed Persons	September 2023
The Treasury's cold calling ban consultation	August 2023
FCA fines Bastion Capital London Limited £2.5m for serious financial control failings	July 2023
Individual charged with fraud over unauthorised investment scheme	July 2023
Three individuals face charges for unauthorised sale-and-rent-back schemes	June 2023
Payment Systems Regulator publication on mandatory reimbursement of APP fraud	June 2023
FCA continues action against unregistered crypto ATMs across the UK	May 2023
Final Notice against David Nicholas King	May 2023
Andrew and Peter Currie sentenced to a combined 8 years for fleecing consumers through Collateral P2P platform	May 2023
Three individuals convicted and sentenced to a combined 24 and a half years for 'all-or-nothing’ investment fraud	April 2023
Four individuals face fraud charges	April 2023
OPBAS publishes report on legal and accountancy sector supervision	April 2023
Al Rayan Bank PLC fined	January 2023
Guaranty Trust Bank fined	January 2023
Five individuals face conspiracy to commit insider dealing and money laundering charges	January 2023
Santander UK PLC fined	December 2022
Final Notice against Mohammed Ataur Rahman Prodhan	November 2022
FCA fines The TJM Partnership Limited (in liquidation) £2 million for serious financial crime control failings in relation to cum-ex trading	July 2022
FCA fines insurance broker JLT Specialty Limited £7.8m for financial crime control failings	June 2022

FCA publications

Title	Date
Payment Services and Electronic Money – Our Approach [DRAFT]	August 2025
FG25/3: Treatment of politically exposed persons	July 2025
PS25/5: Our Enforcement Guide and greater transparency of our enforcement investigations	July 2025
FS25/1 Big tech and digital wallets	February 2025

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

Speeches and podcasts

Title	Date
Our agenda to combat market abuse - Therese Chambers	April 2025
Working together to deliver our enforcement priorities - Therese Chambers	April 2025
Culture is contagious	February 2023

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Title	Date
A targeted and outcomes-based approach to tackling financial crime by Sarah Pritchard	September 2024
Frameworks for effective fraud prevention measures by Andrea Bowe	September 2024
Inside FCA Podcast: Fighting fraud and financial crime	August 2023
Do the right thing - speech given by Therese Chambers	June 2023
How to change in response to changing threats - speech given by Sarah Pritchard	May 2023

Events

Title	Date
FCA Payments Strategy & Consumer Duty webinar	July 2025
Innovation Services Expo	March 2025
FCA webinar archive
TechSprint with City of London Corporation (COLC) and Smart Data Foundry on Authorised Push Payment (APP) Synthetic Data Launch	September 2023
Authorised Push Payment (APP) Fraud TechSprint	September 2022

Campaigns and tools

Title
FCA Firm Checker
5 questions to ask before you invest - InvestSmart
Be a ScamSmart investor - ScamSmart
FCA Warning List of unauthorised firms - Warning List

Key external publications

Title
National risk assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing 2025
UK Finance - Annual Fraud Report 2025
Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences
ACAMS - AFC Briefing - Fraud Planning Assumptions 2026-2030
CIFAS - Wolves of the Internet: Where do fraudsters hunt for data online?
UK Government - Understanding the cyber crime and fraud victim journey
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023: Guidance to organisations on the offence of failure to prevent fraud
Economic Crime Plan
National Fraud Strategy

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