PwC | News | Fraud

An overview of global PwC news:

Middle East

How banking can unite with telecom for a stronger defence against fraud With fraud on the rise and increasingly complex across the Middle East, banking institutions must adopt more intelligent responses smarter – including building cross-industry solutions.
04 September 2025
Asia

PwC hosts Financial Crime Summit for leaders in its Asia Pacific business PwC leaders from across the firm’s Asia-Pacific offices came together to discuss the latest trends and developments in the financial crime landscape.
20 August 2025
United Kingdom

Big Four fined more than £100 million by FRC over five years The four largest audit and advisory firms in the UK have shelled out more than £100 million in fines over the last five years.
24 June 2025
Middle East

Meet the consultants shaping the agenda of the Audit, Anti-Fraud & IT Congress The inaugural Audit, Anti-Fraud & IT Congress will take place next week, bringing together over 1,200 leaders and pioneers from across the landscape to discuss the latest trends and developments.
08 November 2024
Australia

PwC’s investigation reveals further confidentiality breaches The documents released by PwC following internal investigations into its government tax scandal have revealed further confidentiality breaches, potentially hampering the firm’s efforts to move on fro
02 October 2023
United Kingdom

PwC agrees anti-fraud alliance with tech provider Clearspeed Voice analytics technology provider Clearspeed has penned a new partnership with professional services giant PwC.
22 September 2023
United Kingdom

London Police selects Capita and PwC for Action Fraud upgrade work City of London Police has selected Capita and PwC to support with upgrading the services of its fraud reporting division.
28 June 2023
Australia

PwC releases names of those involved in tax scandal to senate enquiry Under fire professional services firm PwC has handed over a list of staff involved in its government tax scandal to a senate enquiry, but is still attempting to keep the names of those still at the f
06 June 2023
Australia

Rising star PwC partner Shao Hong implicated in $3.3 million fraud Sydney-based PwC partner Shao Hong has been implicated in a $3.3 million fraud claim lodged in the Federal Court, accused of being an active or knowing participant.
22 November 2022
United Kingdom

Two-thirds of UK organisations hit by Covid-era fraud UK firms suffered from a spike in fraud during the pandemic years.
03 June 2022
United Kingdom

PwC partners with Neotas to combat financial crime Global professional services giant PwC has partnered with due diligence start-up Neotas to help combat financial crime.
20 May 2022
Australia

Fraud-detection platform provider Fortiro spins out of PwC Professional services firm PwC has let go of its Software-as-a-Service fraud-detection platform Protect, with its development team relaunching via a new separate company.
08 February 2022
South Africa

Economic crime rates on the decline in South Africa Economic crime in South Africa appears to be steadily in decline, having equaled the last low point seen in 2011.
16 March 2020
United Arab Emirates

Deloitte and PwC shine light on financial crime at UAE conferences Financial crime is in the air in Dubai this week – with leaders from Big Four firms Deloitte and PwC sharing their expertise at two separate conferences.
11 October 2019
South Africa

PwC finds fraudulent accounts of more than $7 billion at Steinhoff Having been appointed in December 2017 to conduct a review of Steinhoff International’s finances, Big Four accounting and advisory firm PwC has released some of the discoveries from its investigation
20 March 2019
Kenya

Economic crime is becoming increasingly damaging to Kenyan businesses As the Kenyan economy develops at a rate more rapid than most other countries in Africa, the country continues to be heavily plagued by economic crime.
03 September 2018
Australia

Phoenixing costs Australia’s economy $5 billion, finds PwC report A high estimate of $5 billion is being wiped off Australia’s economy due to phoenixing, or illegally dissolving a company and then rebuilding it from the ashes according to a PwC report commissioned
26 July 2018
Ukraine

Almost half of Ukrainian companies were victims of fraud in last two years Almost half of companies in Ukraine were hit by economic crime in the last two years, according to a new study.
03 July 2018
Middle East

Over one third of Middle East businesses subject to fraud in past two years Reported rates of economic crime are growing both in the Middle East and worldwide.
26 April 2018
United Kingdom

Quarter of UK businesses asked to pay bribes in 2017 UK businesses are reporting an increase in the occurrences of bribery and corruption, according to a new study.
06 April 2018
South Africa

South Africa reports the highest economic crime rate in the world, says PwC Global professional services firm PwC has released its biennial Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey, and South Africa has emerged at the top of the list for the ten countries with the most economi
22 March 2018
United Kingdom

Fighting the 40 billion food fraud to protect food supply Food safety has been an issue in recent years, from the powdered baby milk formula contaminated with dangerous levels of melamine to horse meat sold as beef.
01 February 2016
United Kingdom

PwC and Ecorys: A lot of corruption in public procurement Corruption in public procurement costs the European Union billions on a yearly basis. On average between 3% and 4.4% of the overall value of public procurements ends up in the wrong place.
26 November 2013

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