Live coverage from the ACFE Global Fraud Conference, including anti-fraud articles, session highlights, video clips and photo gallery.
“The opportunity for professionals like you to detect misconduct probably has never been greater because the volatility that we've seen in the markets over the last number of years ... has uncovered a lot of wrongdoing,” said Gurbir Grewal, director of the Division of Enforcement for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tuesday morning at the 33rd Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference.
Read MoreIf you are someone who tends to shrug off cyber threats, just listen to Rachel Wilson. Your nights may be less restful. Wilson should know about the dangers lurking behind your computer screens. She is the first-ever head of cyber security for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and she spent years at the National Security Agency (NSA), where she spied on and hacked the computer systems of terrorists and other enemies of the United States.
Read MoreBethmara Kessler, CFE, a self-proclaimed troublemaker in public accounting since she graduated college, joined 33rd Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference attendees to speak on how we can advocate for managing fraud risk in a company.
Read MoreYou’ve heard the phrase “it takes a village.” Well, it takes a village to effectively fight fraud, and this sentiment was echoed during the “Building a Community-Oriented Fraud Strategy” virtual session at the 33rd Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference. Philip Swan, CFE, FCLA, FRM is Fraud Manager at Gate City Bank headquartered in Fargo, ND. He has executed several anti-fraud educational programs for different groups of people around his community.
Read More“This is my fourth year, it’s great to be back in person and see everyone. My coworkers are here with me who I haven’t seen in two years! I thought the session about having an independent monitor [5B: Making Lemonade from Lemons: How to Benefit from the Imposition of a Monitor] was a really informative session, it matches up really well with my work as fraud investigator. I’m also going to be presenting Wednesday [SS22: How to Eliminate Uncertainty in Your Audits and Investigations], it’s going to go over some fundamental building blocks of a solid audit.” — John Clabaugh, CFE, Investigative Consultant, Liberty Forensic Advisors
Read MoreTwo members of the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership (HFPP) were on hand at the 33rd Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference to present two case studies on fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) in the health care field. In their session, “Health Care: The Power of Leveraging Data Analytics to Identify Fraud, Waste and Abuse,” Richard Haines and Jacob Gray showed how data analytics helped find two instances of fraud which involved health care providers billing for so-called medicated footbaths and for unnecessary additional lab work related to COVID-19 cases.
Read MoreTaking the first step to becoming a whistleblower is a daunting task, and Pav Gill did so reluctantly. But the soft-spoken lawyer who famously brought down the once-revered German payments firm Wirecard has some inspirational words for those individuals who feel helpless in the face of enormous frauds and the powerful players who perpetrate them.
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