fraud

An adviser working for Lloyds Bank has avoided a jail sentence despite stealing more than £200,000 from elderly clients to fuel his gambling habit.

A 21-year-old has been arrested and interviewed as part of a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigation into boiler room fraud.

It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend.

Criminal gangs who trick people into investing in worthless shares have been targeted by police in the biggest ever international crackdown on the fraud.

Solicitor John Fitzpatrick has been sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to six years' imprisonment for his part in two 'quite spectacular mortgage frauds'.

When should advisers report unregulated investments to the FCA?

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is reminding investors that the deadline for filing for compensation from the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) is the last day of February.

How an IFA uncovered a multi-million pound trading scandal

A scam artist who tricked investors into believing he was a trading genius was today sentenced to seven years in prison at Southwark Crown Court.

Matthew Ames, son of troubled overseas property company Harlequin's chairman David Ames, has been found guilty of two counts of defrauding investors.