Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime

    Reporting on fraud schemes, cyber attacks targeting financial systems, regulatory responses, and advancements in fraud prevention technologies.

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    Cryptocurrency

    New Bill Unveiled to Strengthen Crypto Regulation in New York

    By Manesh Samtani | 08/05/2023

    The CRPTO Act would ban the use of the term “stablecoin”  except for digital assets backed 1:1 with the safest of reserve assets. Crypto platforms would have to reimburse fraud losses.

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    Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime

    India Supreme Court Allows Prosecution of Deloitte, KPMG Units

    By Editors | 07/05/2023

    Supreme Court ruling allows criminal complaints against Deloitte Haskins & Sells and BSR & Associates over their handling of IL&FS audits to proceed.

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    Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime

    Taiwan P2P Lender Collapses, Operator Arrested for Fraud

    By Editors | 05/05/2023

    The FSC is investigating five banks that dealt with the P2P lending platform, which was operated as a Ponzi scheme and stole an estimated $81.6mn from investors.

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    Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime

    UK Government Announces New National Fraud Strategy

    By Editors | 04/05/2023

    Cold calls for financial products will be banned. Banks may be given more time to process payments to allow suspicious payments to be investigated.

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    Conduct, Culture & Accountability

    Philippine SEC Issues Implementing Rules for Consumer Protection Act

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 01/05/2023

    The implementing rules set out the enforcement actions the SEC may take as well as measures to protect financial consumers.

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    Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime

    CFTC Issues Largest Ever Civil Monetary Penalty

    By Editors | 30/04/2023

    The CFTC ordered the operator of a fraudulent multilevel marketing scheme to pay a $1.7bn penalty and a further $1.7bn in restitution.

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    AI Risk & Governance

    US Agencies Pledge to Combat Harmful Uses of AI

    By Editors | 30/04/2023

    Four agencies reaffirmed their commitment to “vigorously enforce their collective authorities and to monitor the development and use of automated systems.”

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    Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime

    Terra Co-Founder Daniel Shin Indicted in Korea

    By Editors | 27/04/2023

    Daniel Shin and nine others were indicted for their roles in the collapse of the Terra stablecoin which caused significant losses for investors.

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    Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime

    HK Bank-to-bank Information Sharing Platform to Launch in June

    By Manesh Samtani | 26/04/2023

    Authorities are also considering co-locating bank staff at the ADCC, as this has helped to reduce stop payment response times and enhance loss recoveries in other jurisdictions like Singapore.

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    Anti-Money Laundering

    Swiss Prosecutors Indict Ex-PetroSaudi Executives in 1MDB Case

    By Editors | 26/04/2023

    The two former executives were paid by Jho Low to set up a joint venture that was used to embezzle $1.8bn from 1MDB.

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