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CFO March 1, 2011 Laton McCartney |
Where There's Smoke, There's Fraud Sarbanes-Oxley has done little to curb corporate malfeasance. Therefore, CFOs should implement a range of fraud-prevention measures. |
Bank Technology News March 2007 John Adams |
Offline Fraud Continues to Flourish in an Online World Web fraud gets the headlines, but offline fraud accounts for a high percentage -- almost 70% -- of operating losses. It's a problem that IT pros ignore at their peril. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2008 Jane Worthington |
Ways to Stop Fraud Firms can take effective steps to lessen the risk of fraud. Begin with thorough background checks before hiring. |
IndustryWeek August 18, 2010 |
Costly Fraud Some 5% of a manufacturing company's annual revenue is lost to occupational fraud. |
Investment Advisor January 2009 Jeff Joseph |
More Regulation Post-Madoff? The only thing they are certain of is that his alleged Ponzi scheme. |
Wall Street & Technology January 24, 2006 |
A Matter of Chance Despite increased awareness of the threat of fraud and businesses' confidence in risk controls, more financial wrongdoing within businesses is uncovered by accident than by internal controls, according to a survey. |
Bank Technology News October 2004 Holly Sraeel |
Fraud is Rising, But Victims, Banks are Fighting It Talk about fraud in banking circles and one will inevitably hit a nerve. |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2007 Dawn Kopecki |
Backdating: Why Penalties Are Puny The SEC considers options violations less serious than other kinds of financial fraud. |
InternetNews October 23, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Online Brokers Hit By Fraudsters SEC and other regulators investigate millions in losses of E*Trade and TD Ameritrade customers. |
InternetNews May 31, 2007 Clint Boulton |
SEC Settles Backdating Cases With Mercury, Brocade The Securities and Exchange Commission settled stock-option backdating cases with Mercury Interactive and Brocade Communications Systems totaling $35 million. |
PC Magazine May 16, 2007 |
Who Gets Hit Most by Online Fraud? Protect yourself now! Find out where and how most online fraud originates. |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2004 Rich Smith |
Lucent's Cloudy Picture Lucent settles one out of three SEC investigations it's facing. |
Registered Rep. September 2, 2009 John Churchill |
SEC Blew It With Madoff, Inspector General Says SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro announced the release today of the Office of the Inspector General's report on the Bernard Madoff fraud. It says, in short, the SEC screwed up in every way possible. |
CFO March 1, 2008 Kate Plourd |
CSI Pennsylvania A Pennsylvania district attorney uses Villanova accounting students to help root out financial crimes. |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Barring Bad Board Directors The SEC is cracking down, but enforcement is a problem. |
Bank Systems & Technology May 24, 2007 Nancy Feig |
International Fraud Could Be Slowed By Data Sharing, Study Shows First Data study reveals that data sharing could be the key to stopping cross-border bank fraud. |
CFO May 15, 2012 Sarah Johnson |
Speaking of Fraud Fraud-related tips reached an all-time high in the latest quarter. |
Registered Rep. October 6, 2004 Leitch & Gaffen |
Raymond James Fights the SEC's Fraud Charges The SEC brought fraud charges against the Tampa-based firm, saying the firm had looked the other way when a former broker scammed investors of approximately $44.5 million between 1999 and 2000. |
InternetNews February 22, 2007 Clint Boulton |
Veritas Dinged For $30M Veritas Software will fork over cash to investors harmed in fraudulent financial schemes. |
CFO June 1, 2010 Marie Leone |
Something Wicked This Way Comes Fraudsters are preying on corporate coffers and catching the crooks will take more than accounting controls. |
InsideFlyer December 2014 |
Loyalty Program Fraud Skift recently reported that 72 percent of airline loyalty programs have fallen victim to fraud. |
Bank Systems & Technology March 10, 2010 Penny Crosman |
Rise in Online Banking Fraud Costing Banks Customers, Study Says Ponemon Institute/Guardian Analytics study finds 40 percent of small and medium businesses change banks after a fraud incident. |
CFO April 1, 2005 Tim Reason |
The Limits of Mercy The cost of cooperating with the SEC is high. The cost of not cooperating is even higher. Faced with financial penalties, career-ending bans, and possible criminal prosecution, more individuals are choosing to fight the SEC. |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
The Senate's Cop Cracks Down on Financial Fraud "Fraud and potential criminal conduct were at the heart of the financial crisis," Senator Ted Kaufman (D, Del) said in a speech last month on the Senate floor. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Mary Schapiro's Priorities Mary Schapiro tells the Senate Banking Committee what her priorities will be at the SEC. |
The Motley Fool January 10, 2012 Sean Williams |
A Perfect World? In Name Only Fraud allegations shake Chinese small caps yet again. |
CFO September 1, 2012 Kathleen Hoffelder |
SEC Report Backs Away from Convergence The commission's staff expresses hesitation about merging international standards and U.S. GAAP. |
InternetNews September 21, 2007 David Needle |
Steve Jobs to Testify in Backdating Case Apple CEO Steve Jobs has reportedly been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to testify in a stock-options back-dating case against Apple's former general counsel, Nancy Heinen. |
CFO May 1, 2005 Lori Calabro |
In Your Own Defense Why representing finance executives in lawsuits is both an art and a science. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Jane Worthington |
Compliance Tips As a financial services professional, you should welcome questions from seniors and be prepared to answer them, no matter how basic. |
Registered Rep. October 23, 2007 David A. Geracioti |
If Allegations Prove True, File This Under: Stupid Broker The SEC has filed a complaint against a former LPL rep and branch manager, who, the SEC says, had been engaging in one of the oldest broker tricks in the book: stealing his clients money. |
InternetNews February 1, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
FTC: Identity Theft, Fraud on the Rise A new report by the FTC finds increases in fraud and identity theft. E-mail and the Web were fraud tools of choice on the Internet. |
Registered Rep. May 10, 2007 Kristen French |
SEC Impostors on the Loose The SEC issued an alert to securities industry firms, warning them to keep an eye out for impostors -- individuals pretending to work for the SEC. |
Knowledge@Wharton January 29, 2003 |
Lawyers and Accountants Can Expect Curbs and Compromises in New SEC Rules Recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the kind of legal and accounting shenanigans that toppled companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen are not as strong as the SEC first indicated they might be. But do they still have enough teeth to work? |
Inc. September 2006 Patrick Cliff |
The New Film Studies? Forensic Accounting Forensic accounting, the dismal science of digging through old financials in search of wrongdoing, is one of the fastest-growing areas of study at the nation's colleges and business schools. |
Insurance & Technology November 28, 2005 Maria Woehr |
Experian Fights Fraud To combat fraud in the insurance industry, Experian has released Commercial Fraud Insight, which authenticates customer and claims information. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 |
Blotter SEC filed a civil action against five unregistered Florida brokers who were operating a pump-and-dump scheme... Third largest hedge fund fraud ever... |
Bank Systems & Technology November 17, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Obama Orders Creation of Financial Fraud Task Force The Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, an interagency initiative, will rely on the coordinated efforts of each member to prevent another financial crisis. The new task force replaces the Corporate Fraud Task Force. |
CFO October 1, 2002 Alix Nyberg |
Regulation: Pitt and the Pendulum The kinder, gentler SEC Pitt envisioned vanished faster than you can say Arthur Andersen. Can he run a tougher, meaner agency? |
CFO April 1, 2003 Julia Homer |
They ARE Out to Get You So far, relatively few executives have gone to jail for white-collar crimes. That may be about to change. |
InternetNews March 12, 2007 Roy Mark |
Feds Hit 3 Hackers in Stock 'Pump and Dump' U.S. authorities charge hackers in India and Malaysia with cracking U.S online brokerage accounts. |
U.S. Banker April 2011 |
Noted & Noteworthy A recently released survey from electronic-payments firm ACI Worldwide found that nearly one-third of consumers say they were victims of credit or debit card fraud in 2010. |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Avoiding the Next $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme The scandal and scope of Bernard Madoff's fraud is a further blow to the financial sector's reputation. |
Wall Street & Technology May 29, 2008 Melanie Rodier |
The Need for Holistic Fraud Management Recent incidents prove that firms must take a holistic approach to risk management in order to effectively detect and prevent fraud. |
CFO April 1, 2009 S.L. Mintz |
The Gauge of Innocence Fraud takes many forms. Count on all of them to increase this year. |
CFO May 1, 2005 Kris Frieswick |
What Does Your CEO Really Know? How much do chief executives know about company finances? We asked more than 300 CFOs to rate their boss's finance IQ. |
InternetNews September 22, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Former CA CEO Indicted Sanjay Kumar is charged with securities fraud, conspiracy and obstruction offenses, while his former company Computer Associates strikes a deal to avoid court. |
Wall Street & Technology November 12, 2008 Melanie Rodier |
Insider Fraud Is Involed in 60 Percent of Data Breaches Rogue employees have the potential to devastate a bank. But up to 50 percent of all insider fraud incidents go unreported, Celent says. |
Bank Technology News September 2004 Holly Sraeel |
The Skinny On Fraud: Banks Aren't That Helpful When It Hits While banks have spent scads of dollars educating the public on fraud, there's a disconnect between what banks intend to do on behalf of customers and what actually occurs once fraud is reported. |
U.S. Banker December 2010 Katie Kuehner-Hebert |
Inside Jobs Large and small banks alike are dealing with a spike in fraud, much of it by trusted employees. |