Kate Grove from the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) highlights their collaboration with the Fraud Advisory Panel in supporting the Business Fraud Alliance to tackle fraud. The NECC focus on tackling criminality and are providing a help sheet on invoice fraud, detailing how fraudsters operate. This resource aims to help staff recognise and prevent invoice fraud, addressing both financial loss and emotional harm.
Richardson Lissack is a specialist corporate protection and white-collar crime firm with offices in London and Manchester. It has a growing civil litigation practice specialising in fraud and complex commercial disputes, together with wider expertise across the firm in fintech, Web3, digital assets, sanctions and tax disputes. The firm advises corporations and senior executives on financial crime, compliance and regulatory risk.
At Harod, we lead in international investigations, specialising in delivering cutting-edge investigative solutions. Whether it is due diligence, addressing defamation, tackling sports crime, resolving intricate cases of fraud or asset tracing, we deliver bespoke solutions tailored to individual investigative requirements. Our demonstration of outstanding success in the field of international trade has not gone unnoticed after becoming the recipient of The King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade 2025.
Built on Trust, Driven by Purpose.
Cifas is a not-for-profit fraud prevention membership organisation. We are the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, managing the largest confirmed fraud database in the country. Our members are organisations from all sectors, sharing their data across those sectors to reduce instances of fraud and financial crime.
Throughout the UK, our experts and services help protect individuals and organisations from the growing and increasingly sophisticated threat of fraud and financial crime. Since 1988, Cifas has helped its members and customers protect themselves from billions of pounds worth of fraud losses.
With every organisation that becomes a Cifas member, or with whom we collaborate, we establish a tougher environment for fraudsters – both externally and within your organisation. Using the simple tools of communication and sharing information, we are able to shine a light on their activities for all our members and partners to see.
For members of the public we offer increased security against identity fraud, as well as expert advice on how to protect your personal data in our increasingly tech-reliant world.
We are recognised experts in white collar fraud and commercial litigation, both domestic and cross border. We are sector agnostic and often engaged on cases with a significant press or public interest.
Our disputes team represents a diverse client base including housing, charities, financial services, facilities managers, private client sector corporate clients and HNW individuals. We have specialists in cross-border investigations, internal corporate frauds, regulator engagement, and high-value asset tracing.
We are adept at handling complex and high value fraud cases, (up to tens of £millions), within the private, public and regulated sectors, and emerging asset markets.
We provide a host of public and bespoke training including fraud prevention and recovery, conducting lawful investigations, AML, and “failure to prevent” training.
Beyond our disputes team, we are a full-service law firm widely ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers directories serving clients from our offices across London, Leeds, Birmingham and Colchester.
With over one hundred years combined experience, we are trusted advisors to the legal community, considered to be a top tier forensic accountancy firm and recognised within the courts in Northern Ireland across our 3 specialist divisions.
We are very skilled at making complex loss calculations understandable and are the first port of call for many of NI’s leading law firms. Working across numerous jurisdictions with local and international law enforcement agencies, our expertise includes Proceeds of Crime, Benefit Fraud, Confiscation, large scale Money Laundering and Corruption cases.
Whether your case involves vast amounts of data, unusual transaction patterns or hidden wealth our team brings certainty and clarity through comprehensive and persuasive reports.’
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is the global body for professional accountants. We offer business-relevant, first-choice qualifications to people of application, ability and ambition around the world who seek a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management.
Founded in 1904, ACCA has consistently held unique core values: opportunity, diversity, innovation, integrity and accountability. These values are aligned to the needs of employers in all sectors and we ensure that through our wide range of qualifications that we prepare accountants for business.
ACCA believes that professional accountants bring value to economies at all stages of development and we seek to develop capacity in the profession and encourage the adoption of global standards. ACCA seeks to open up the profession to people of all backgrounds and remove artificial barriers, innovating its qualifications and delivery to meet the diverse needs of trainee professionals and their employers. ACCA also champions the profession through its global research and technical policy themes, from audit to social mobility, from corporate governance to the future of the profession.
Tenet are a specialist firm providing legal advice on financial crime compliance and responding to fraud.
The aim is simple, to provide international and national law firm experience at more accessible costs to clients. Our focus is on being the space in between the large firms with dedicated experience and medium sized firms without the dedicated experience we have helping clients prevent fraud or respond to fraud in cases where loss ranges from £50,000 to £5m (with clients ranging from banks to individuals looking for an alternative to London based or national law firms). The team is made up of lawyers who believe fraud is wrong and want to make it right. Our strengths lie in how we listen, provide reassurance, comfort and confidence from our experience to our clients to help reduce the impact of fraud.
As a progressive firm we focus on utilising the cloudbased technology and modern working practices to deliver cost-effective solutions for our clients and a genuine work-life balance for our people. Our unique approach means that we have been recognised in short listings for multiple national awards for innovation in legal services (Legal Week, Lexus Nexis and the Law Society) and most recently winning Best Financial Crime & Compliance Law Firm 2021 in the SME News Legal Awards.
The International Compliance Association (ICA) is a professional membership and awarding body open to compliance professionals at all stages of their career. As part of our ongoing commitment to setting the standard, we provide a wealth of knowledge, tools, resources and practical support.
We are the leading provider of professional, certificated qualifications in anti-money laundering; governance, risk and compliance and financial crime prevention. An internationally recognised organisation, our qualifications are awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester.
Our global community has members across 130 countries. Being a member demonstrates a commitment to the highest standards of practice and conduct, enhances your professional reputation and employability and significantly protects and improves the performance of your organisation.
Recognition. Community. Knowledge. The benchmark of excellence.
Edmonds Marshall McMahon (“EMM”) is the first and only specialist private prosecution law firm in the UK. Founded in 2012, we are a unique firm with an unrivalled track record in conducting major fraud investigations, prosecutions and regulatory work. Described as a firm with ‘unsparing attention to detail’ that is ‘the very model of how fraud cases should be prosecuted in the Magistrates and Crown Courts’ (Legal 500), our founding partners have a combined 70 years’ experience in criminal justice having prosecuted for both the public and private sector.
Staffed by highly experienced prosecutors, EMM offers a novel service to companies, charities, organisations and individuals who have been the victims of crime. We have significant experience in the private prosecution of offences of fraud, corporate dishonesty and all financial crime. We also advise clients on the best means of retrieving assets and recovering the proceeds of crime, whether by civil asset recovery or criminal confiscation and compensation orders.
We do not believe in a ‘one size fits all’ approach to address fraud. We prefer to use our extensive experience, hard won reputation and expertise in tracing stolen monies to provide the most effective solution to a problem. We pride ourselves on our imaginative approach to our cases and the exceptional results that we achieve for our clients.