Fighting Fraud, Corruption and other Scandals
Professional Bodies, Investigative Services, Forensic Accounting, Pressure Groups
etc.
- Better Banking
- The Better Banking campaign is led by a coalition of third sector organisations in the United Kingdom. They came together during summer 2009 to run a campaign to address the problem of financial exclusion: the lack of fair access to financial services and credit to those who warrant it.
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- Biginsiders.org
- BigInsiders.org is an evolving nonprofit research tool for investors,
regulators and journalists. Its mission is to document relationships and
chains of influence among powerful people in business and government. The
organization has a large and growing database of insiders and nearly 4,000
publicly traded corporations and will also include senior government
officials and influential public policy figures.
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- Auditors and the
Reporting of Illegality and Financial Fraud
- A paper by Professor Roman Tomasic, University of Canberra which discusses the
debate on the responsibility of auditors. In addition to Australian cases the
situation in Britain and the United States is also discussed.
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India Against Corruption
- India Against Corruption (IAC) is a citizen's movement to demand strong anti-corruption laws.
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Study Group on the Establishment of Regional Transnational Organised Crime Hubs in the Asia Pacific
- The Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific established
this Study Group to study major transnational crime trends affecting
the region as a whole, to consider practical measures for combating
transnational crime, and to foster international cooperation.
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- UK Card Fraud Conference 2007
- The theme of the conference, in London on 24th and 25th January 2007 was Meeting the new fraud challenges.
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- Card Watch
- The UK banking industry's body that works with police, retailers and
organisation including Crimestoppers to fight plastic card crime.
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- Association for Accountancy
& Business Affairs
- AABA, an independent British voice on accountancy and business affairs, is
working for an open and democratic society. Its web site operates from the USA
where it is protected by that country's freedom of information laws.
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- The Compliance Exchange
- A compilation of links to information sources that will be useful to compliance
officers and other executives engaged in the business of managing investments or
regulating investment business.
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- The Corner House
- Since its founding in Britain in 1997, The Corner House has aimed to
support democratic and community movements for environmental and social
justice.
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- International Intelligence Limited
- A firm providing risk management, due diligence and financial
investigation services worldwide. All of their personnel have military,
special forces, intelligence or technical backgrounds.
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- Hill & Associates
- One of the world's leading risk management consultancies, with offices
in many Asian countries as well as the United States and the United
Kingdom. Among the many risk management services they offer are computer
forensics, business intelligence, due diligence, fraud investigation and
forensic investigation.
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- Compliance Online
- The UK's retail life & pensions compliance portal. This site has a lot of
useful information for people wanting to make complaints.
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- National Association of Bank / Insurance
Customers
- A British organisation for helping customers with complaints. It has links to
associated groups in other countries.
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- The Association of Certified Fraud
Examiners
- This is a 25,000-member professional organization dedicated to fighting fraud
and white-collar crime. With offices in North America and Europe - and chapters
around the globe - the Association is networked to respond to the needs of
anti-fraud professionals everywhere.
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- National Fraud Information Center
- The NFIC was originally established in 1992 by the National Consumers League,
the oldest nonprofit consumer organization in the United States, to fight the
growing menace of telemarketing fraud by improving prevention and enforcement.
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- Judicial Watch
- Judicial Watch, Inc. was established in 1994 to serve as an ethical and legal
"watchdog" over our government, legal, and judicial systems to promote a return to ethics and morality in American public life.
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- The Association of Certified Forensic
Investigators of Canada
- A non-profit organization whose objective is to promote and foster a national
forum and governing body for the affiliation of professionals who provide to the
public, governments and employers, their expertise and services in the areas of
fraud prevention, detection and investigation.
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- International Fraud Prevention Research Centre
- The IFPRC based at Nottingham Business School, has strong industry links and is
funded by channelling its income into research projects and is developing fraud
databases for research purposes.
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- SAFE: Struggle Against
Financial Exploitation
- SAFE are fighting for the implementation of rules promoting ethical
banking as well as transparency and redress for those who had their lives ruined,
homes and businesses taken away by the financial institutions with the assistance of
the courts.
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- The Journal of
Forensic Accounting
- An independent international forum for the publication of significant research
dealing with the models and methodologies of investigative and forensic accounting,
seeking to establish a balance between theoretical and empirical studies, and
striving to foster practitioner-academic dialogue and collaboration.
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- The 23rd Cambridge International
Symposium on Economic Crime
- The symposium was held at Jesus College, Cambridge, 4th-11th September 2005.
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- The Economic Crime Forum and the
Financial Crime Forum
- Details of future meetings are posted at the Forum site as and when they become available.
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- Internet Center
for Corruption Research
- A joint initiative of the University of Passau and Transparency International,
this service is intended to serve as an outlet of academic research to the media
and as a discussion forum for academic research on corruption.
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The Center for Public Integrity
- The mission of the Center is to provide the American people with the
findings of investigations and analyses of public service, government
accountability and ethics related issues.
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- The Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- The ACN brings national governments from above 20 countries from the region together with the OECD governments; it is also open for the civil society and business representatives.
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- Standing Group on Organised Crime blog
- This is one of the European Consortium for Political Research standing groups. It aims to promote research in transnational organised crime across different disciplines, and co-operation and communication among the scholars and practitioners internationally through conferences and electronic communications.
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- Inner City Press
- A non-profit community, consumers’ and civil rights organization based in
New York City, engaged in reporting and organizing in the fields of community
reinvestment, fair access to credit, insurance and telecommunications,
environmental justice, and government and corporate accountability.
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Anti-Phishing Working Group
- Phishing attacks involve the mass distribution of 'spoofed' e-mail
messages which appear to come from banks, insurance agencies, retailers or
credit card companies. These messages are designed to fool the recipients
into divulging as account usernames and passwords, credit card numbers,
etc.
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- Fraud, Phishing and Financial
Misdeeds
- A blog that is meant to educate people on how to protect their own
assets through awareness. It can also provide resources for resolution to
those who have been victimized.
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- Fordham Institute for Ethics
and Economic Policy (FIEEP)
- FIEEP runs a Corruption Information Exchange Network with volunteers from all
over the world.
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- National Association of Credit Management
- The National Association of Credit Management's Loss Prevention department has been
described as America's premier business credit fraud-fighting network.
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- New York Alliance Against Insurance Fraud
- The New York Alliance Against Insurance Fraud (NYAAIF) was founded in 1999 to assist insurers in sponsoring public awareness programs on insurance fraud.
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- Greymans Risk and security
Management
- An international Business Risk Consultancy that provides support and
solutions at every stage of the business process.
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- Stork
- A strategic fraud and security resource in a world of business
convergence. Stork, which is based in south west England, offers a wide
range of services and does fraud investigations all over the world.
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- ICC Commercial Crime
Services
- This organisation, based in London and Kuala Lumpur, provides information and
encourages companies to join forces in protecting themselves against all types of
fraud. CCS is a non-profit crime buster which has been dedicated to combating
frauds world wide since the early 1980s.
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- Michael G. Kessler & Associates
Ltd
- This firm that offers a wide variety of accounting and investigation services
to counter the problem of fraud. Their site also includes an online newsletter and
links to other relevant sites.
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- KPMG UK Forensic Overview
- An outline of the forensic accounting services offered by KPMG.
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- Forensic
Accountants appearing in the Literature
- An article by D. Larry Crumbley, KPMG Peat Marwick Professor of Accounting at
Louisiana State University, who has written a series of novels with the aim of
present technical information in a way which facilitates learning and infuses
student enthusiasm.
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- Deloitte
& Touche Forensic Services
- Details of the antifraud activities of the well-known accounting firm.
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- Forensic Accounting
Ltd.
- A British-based firm whose specialising in the area indicated by its name.
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- Victims Unite!
- A blog that documents the struggles of victims of financial exploitation and / or legal oppression.
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- The Financial
Ombudsman Service
- A free, independent service for resolving disputes with financial
firms in the UK.
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- UnjustIS
- A British organisation campaigning for justice in cases where recourse to the
Office for the Supervision of Solicitors, the Law Society, and the Legal Services
Ombudsman has proved ineffectual. Many of the cases involve financial matters.
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- Integrity International
- The Foundation was created to provide support to whistleblowers both in
corporate and governmental institutions.
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- US Government Accountability
Project
- The Project’s mission is to protect the public interest by promoting
government and corporate accountability through advancing occupational free speech
and ethical conduct, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen
activists.
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- Lawyers and Settlements :
Financial Section
- Par of America's largest public database of legal verdicts and settlements.
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- Corporate Europe Observatory
- CEO, is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to
democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and
political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
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- Corporate Watch
- Corporate Watch says its mission is concerned with globalisation, genetic engineering,
food, toxic chemicals, privatisation and many other areas, to build up a picture of almost
every type of corporate crime and the nature and mechanisms of corporate power, both economic
and political.
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- Transnationale.org
- Transnationale.org provides comprehensive information on more than 10000 companies
around the world. It reports social and environmental behaviour, financial data, list
of brands, membership to the most influential lobbies, public relations and opinion
making, managers name and position, shareholders and subsidiaries, plants
locations and offshore centres, brand and corporate image management.
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- Endgame Research Services
- The mission of the Public Information Network is to provide research services and training to citizens
who are working for corporate and governmental accountability, and who are
committed to socially just and ecologically sustainable societies.
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