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I read an article this week by Jeff Berkowitz, founder and CEO of Delve, a competitive intelligence firm. They help companies assess political and reputational risks. He raised an interesting and important question. Should investors add politics and reputation to their life of due diligence? Jeff’s answer to this is yes, and he makes a…

It was reported this week that company insolvencies are the highest they have been in four years; with Directors voluntarily closing up shop. This is due to a rise in Company Voluntary Liquidations (CVL’s). Trading conditions in the UK remain tough after the couple of years of lockdowns. Not to mention the rising cost of…

A jail sentence most likely wasn’t the first thing that came to the minds of those who applied for the government loans during the covid-19 lockdowns. But lo and behold; three years on, and fraudsters are being prosecuted for abuse of Bounce Back Loans. Let’s not forget how crucial the loans were at the time.…

Clint Canning, a scammer who conned people out of £2.7million in an investment scam, has been jailed for 9 years. Canning, who also went by the aliases:  Christian Beauchamp and Clint Foster, was also disqualified from being a director for 15 years for conspiracy to commit fraud. His wife, Eleise Wallace, was also found guilty…

The latest phenomenon in the world of investment scams has a rather unusual yet striking name. ‘Pig-butchering’ scams. It was reported this week that scammers are conning Brits out of their life savings from scam companies based in ‘prisonlike’ compounds in South-East Asia. Thousands of crypto investors across the world have been defrauded out of…

By now, you must have heard the name Bernie Madoff. The disgraced Wall Street financier and former chairman of NASDAQ who ran the largest scale Ponzi scheme ever known. The scale of it so large, that he has been referred to as a ‘financial serial killer’. However, he was already an established and successful businessman.…