Financial crime resources

Publications relating to the Fighting Financial Crime area of our strategy[1], 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[2]	August 2025
FCA secures convictions against individual for £1.3m Ponzi scheme[3]	August 2025
Final Notice - Sigma Broking Limited[4]	August 2025
FCA acts over alleged £23 million unauthorised collective investment scheme[5]	July 2025

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Title	Date
H2O Deputy CEO fined £1m and banned from financial services for deliberately misleading FCA[6]	July 2025
Seven crypto ATMs seized and two arrested on suspicion of running illegal cryptoasset exchange[7]	July 2025
FCA closes 1,600 websites as it fights financial crime[8]	July 2025
Two individuals sentenced to a combined 12 years for £1.5m crypto fraud[9]	July 2025
Redinel Korfuzi and Oerta Korfuzi sentenced to combined 11 years for £1m insider dealing and money laundering[10]	July 2025
Tribunal upholds the FCA’s market manipulation bans[11]	July 2025
Final Notice - James Edward Staley[12]	July 2025
Final Notice - Barclays Bank plc[13]	July 2025
Final Notice - Barclays Bank UK plc[14]	July 2025
Final Notice - Monzo Bank Ltd[15]	July 2025
FCA secures guilty plea from John Burford in £1m investor fraud scheme[16]	June 2025
FCA leads international crackdown on illegal finfluencers[17]	June 2025
FCA bans former Credit Suisse vice president following US criminal conviction[18]	May 2025
FCA confiscates over £300,000 from convicted fraudsters[19]	May 2025
Final Notice - Mako Finanicial Markets Partnership LLP[20]	February 2025
FCA finds gaps remain in brokers' money laundering defences[21]	January 2025
Final Notice - Arian Financial LLP[22]	January 2025
FCA charges John Dance with offences related to WealthTek[23]	December 2024
Final Notice - Macquarie Bank Ltd, London[24]	November 2024
FCA charges four individuals with fraud offences for failed credit union[25]	November 2024
Final Notice - Barclays Bank[26]	November 2024
Final Notice - Metro Bank[27]	November 2024
FCA secures convictions against two individuals for £1.5m fraud[28]	November 2024
Three individuals and two firms charged over alleged unauthorised business activities[29]	November 2024
Final Notice - Starling Bank[30]	October 2024
Olumide Osunkoya pleads guilty to illegally operating crypto ATM network[31]	September 2024
PwC fined £15 million for failing to alert the FCA to suspected fraudulent activity at London Capital & Finance plc[32]	August 2024
Individual charged with investment fraud over unauthorised multimillion pound ‘Kube Trading’ scheme[33]	April 2024
Two individuals guilty of making £3m worth of fraudulent mortgage applications[34]	November 2023
FCA fines ADM Investor Services International Limited £6,470,600 for serious financial crime control failings[35]	October 2023
FCA launches review of treatment of Politically Exposed Persons[36]	September 2023
The Treasury's cold calling ban consultation[37]	August 2023
FCA fines Bastion Capital London Limited £2.5m for serious financial control failings[38]	July 2023
Individual charged with fraud over unauthorised investment scheme[39]	July 2023
Three individuals face charges for unauthorised sale-and-rent-back schemes[40]	June 2023
Payment Systems Regulator publication on mandatory reimbursement of APP fraud[41]	June 2023
FCA continues action against unregistered crypto ATMs across the UK[42]	May 2023
Final Notice against David Nicholas King[43]	May 2023
Andrew and Peter Currie sentenced to a combined 8 years for fleecing consumers through Collateral P2P platform[44]	May 2023
Three individuals convicted and sentenced to a combined 24 and a half years for 'all-or-nothing’ investment fraud[45]	April 2023
Four individuals face fraud charges[46]	April 2023
OPBAS publishes report on legal and accountancy sector supervision[47]	April 2023
Al Rayan Bank PLC fined[48]	January 2023
Guaranty Trust Bank fined[49]	January 2023
Five individuals face conspiracy to commit insider dealing and money laundering charges[50]	January 2023
Santander UK PLC fined[51]	December 2022
Final Notice against Mohammed Ataur Rahman Prodhan[52]	November 2022
FCA fines The TJM Partnership Limited (in liquidation) £2 million for serious financial crime control failings in relation to cum-ex trading[53]	July 2022
FCA fines insurance broker JLT Specialty Limited £7.8m for financial crime control failings[54]	June 2022

FCA publications

Title	Date
Payment Services and Electronic Money – Our Approach [DRAFT][55]	August 2025
FG25/3: Treatment of politically exposed persons[56]	July 2025
PS25/5: Our Enforcement Guide and greater transparency of our enforcement investigations[57]	July 2025
FS25/1 Big tech and digital wallets[58]	February 2025

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Title	Date
Assessing and reducing the risk of money laundering through the markets[59]	January 2025
Firms' use of the National Fraud Database and money mule account detection tools[60]	January 2025
PS24/17: Financial Crime Guide updates[61]	November 2024
AML Supervision by Legal and Accountancy Professional Body Supervisors[62]	September 2024
Treatment of PEPs - multi-firm review[63]	July 2024
Expectations of firms' controls regarding cash-based money laundering through cash deposits via the Post Office[64]	April 2023
OPBAS multi-PBS review on Trust and Company Service Provider risk[65]	March 2023
Dear CEO letter to payments firms[66]	March 2023
OPBAS Sourcebook for professional body anti‑money laundering supervisors[67]	January 2023
PS22/10: Strengthening our financial promotion rules for high‑risk investments and firms approving financial promotions[68]	August 2022

Speeches and podcasts

Title	Date
Our agenda to combat market abuse - Therese Chambers[69]	April 2025
Working together to deliver our enforcement priorities - Therese Chambers[70]	April 2025
Culture is contagious[71]	February 2023

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Title	Date
A targeted and outcomes-based approach to tackling financial crime by Sarah Pritchard[72]	September 2024
Frameworks for effective fraud prevention measures by Andrea Bowe[73]	September 2024
Inside FCA Podcast: Fighting fraud and financial crime[74]	August 2023
Do the right thing[75] - speech given by Therese Chambers	June 2023
How to change in response to changing threats[76] - speech given by Sarah Pritchard	May 2023

Events

Title	Date
FCA Payments Strategy & Consumer Duty webinar[77]	July 2025
Innovation Services Expo[78]	March 2025
FCA webinar archive[79]
TechSprint with City of London Corporation (COLC) and Smart Data Foundry on Authorised Push Payment (APP) Synthetic Data Launch[80]	September 2023
Authorised Push Payment (APP) Fraud TechSprint[81] [82]	September 2022

Campaigns and tools

Title
FCA Firm Checker[83]
5 questions to ask before you invest - InvestSmart[84]
Be a ScamSmart investor - ScamSmart[85]
FCA Warning List of unauthorised firms - Warning List[86]

Key external publications

Title
National risk assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing 2025[87]
UK Finance - Annual Fraud Report 2025[88]
Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences[89]
ACAMS - AFC Briefing - Fraud Planning Assumptions 2026-2030[90]
CIFAS - Wolves of the Internet: Where do fraudsters hunt for data online?[91]
UK Government - Understanding the cyber crime and fraud victim journey[92]
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023: Guidance to organisations on the offence of failure to prevent fraud[93]
Economic Crime Plan[94]
National Fraud Strategy[95]

First published: 08/02/2024 Last updated: 10/10/2025