Digital Investigative Safety: The New World of Fraud Examination

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Digital Investigative Safety: The New World of Fraud Examination

Imagine you’re on assignment working a case and you’re spending a lot of time out of the office. You run into a café to grab a coffee and while there, you figure you’ll sit down to check some emails. You log on to the café’s free Wi-Fi and load up your account. Your phone pings you to say that you have an alert from your bank so you check that too. You might even log into Facebook or Twitter to see what’s going on in the world or with your friends and family. Nothing you’ve done in these 30 minutes has been secure.

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Quebec’s New Whistleblower Program to Build Trust and Transparency with Canadian Investors

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Quebec’s New Whistleblower Program to Build Trust and Transparency with Canadian Investors

In late June, Québec’s financial market regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), launched its very first whistleblower program. According to Jean-François Fortin, the AMF’s executive director of enforcement, the program’s focus is two-fold: to generate more tips and to generate better tips. Fortin will be speaking about the new program, as well a cooperative governance model the AMF created, at the upcoming 2016 ACFE Fraud Conference Canada next month in Montréal.

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Fraud Report Released at Canada’s Largest Gathering of Anti-Fraud Professionals

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Fraud Report Released at Canada’s Largest Gathering of Anti-Fraud Professionals

According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner’s latest report, Canadian fraudsters were more likely to receive no punishment from their employers than being asked to resign. More than 200 anti-fraud professionals will receive an early-access, exclusive look at this report during the 2016 ACFE Fraud Conference Canada, taking place in Montreal, September 11-14.

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