FRA Wins Investigations Consultancy of the Year GIR noted that FRA’s support of the landmark Airbus settlement of €3.6 billion announced in January 2020 helped secure this year’s title, along with FRA’s role in the investigation into allegations of money laundering and US sanctions violations by Swedish lender Swedbank. Frances McLeod, founding partner and co-head […]
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Strengthening Supply Chains amid Trade Wars
What steps can companies take to prepare and protect themselves against intensifying supply chain risk arising from trade wars and sanctions? An extract from the 2021 edition of Asia-Pacific Investigations Review. The whole publication is available at https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/edition/1001536/asia-pacific-investigations-review-2021 Sanctions and trade restrictions are not new tools in international trade and foreign policy. Correlated with the […]
Forensic Risk Alliance Appoints First Global Chief Information Officer
October 1, 2020, LONDON: Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA), a forensic accounting, data governance and information management, and compliance consultancy firm specialising in international corruption and fraud investigations for global corporations and the law firms that represent them, today announces the appointment of Albert Santiago as Global Chief Information Officer. Albert will be responsible for overseeing […]
Dealing with Fraud in the Finance Sector as Remote Working becomes the ‘New Normal’
This article was first featured in Accountancy Daily. Around the world, businesses have been caught unprepared in dealing with the challenges brought by COVID-19 in early 2020. The finance sector in particular is neither immune to, nor has escaped, the impacts of the pandemic. As countries went into lockdown one by one, remote working and […]
UEFA need to revive Financial Fair Play
What regulatory best practice can be learned from other industries to improve UEFA’s Financial Fair Play (“FFP”)? In July, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”) cleared Manchester City of breaching UEFA’s Financial Fair Play (“FFP”) regulations by allegedly receiving funds from their owner disguised as sponsorship revenue. Although CAS did sanction of EUR 10,000,000 […]