Financial

Challenger bank Revolut is to let customers create disposable virtual cards to make purchases online, in a bid to stamp out fraud.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/banking/2018/03/revolut-to-allow-customers-to-pay-via-virtual-disposable-card

Organised criminals often target solicitors. Here's how being extra vigilant can pay off

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/the-money-laundering-red-flags-to-look-out-for-a3725936.html

According to Cifas, the UK's fraud prevention service, there were 8,652 cases of 18-24-year-olds becoming "money mules" from January to September this year.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/thousands-more-millennials-turned-money-11594594

Tenet has lost a High Court case after a judge ruled the network was in fact liable for the unregulated activities of one of its appointed representatives.

https://www.ftadviser.com/regulation/2018/03/14/court-orders-tenet-to-compensate-for-ar-s-fraud/

An ex-Deutsche Bank trader, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud in connection with the SFO’s investigation into the manipulation of the Euro Interbank Offered Rate.

https://www.sfo.gov.uk/2018/03/15/ex-deutsche-bank-trader-pleads-guilty-over-euribor-manipulation/

UK consumers are being put at risk of fraud because banks are “seriously lagging behind international competitors” when it comes to security.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-consumers-fraud-bank-security-lagging-international-competitors-barclays-lloyds-hsbc-halifax-a8251761.html

An industry code to better protect victims of authorised push payment (APP) scams will be put into place in interim form by September, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has announced.

https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2018/march/push-payment-scam-victims-to-be-reimbursed-regulator-announces/

Norwich-based financial advisers Taylor and Taylor Associates have been convicted of orchestrating a £17.5m fraud which conned more than 200 elderly and vulnerable clients.

https://www.professionaladviser.com/professional-adviser/news/3027920/adviser-brothers-admit-gbp175m-investment-fraud

Fraudsters use new technology to perpetrate old schemes

http://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4295000887

Police in Iceland have arrested 11 people suspected of stealing more than 600 computers that were being used to mine crypto-currencies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43288495