Fighting financial crime
Contact
To report market abuse
Telephone:
020 7066 4900
Email:
Market abuse team
Queries from authorised firms
Telephone:
0845 606 9966
Email:
Firm contact centre
Queries from consumers
Telephone:
0845 606 1234
Email:
Consumer helpline
One of our statutory objectives is to reduce the extent to which it is possible for a financial business to be used for a purpose connected with financial crime.
Financial crime includes any offence involving money laundering, fraud or dishonesty, or market abuse. The objective interacts with our three other objectives – protecting consumers; market confidence; and public awareness.
Latest updates and additions
December:
Data security - update on our work in this area.
October:
Following the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) statement on 16th October 2008 of AML/CTF deficiencies in certain jurisdictions - HMT has issued the following advice to businesses
July:
Our approach to tackling mortgage fraud
EU imposes financial sanctions against Bank Melli Iran and its UK subsidiary - updated
In this section
Information about our work in the following areas:
Money laundering
Fraud
Market abuse
If you’ve been a victim of fraud or contacted by a boiler room see:
Victims of fraud
Boiler rooms
Links to FSA documents relating to financial crime:
Financial crime library
Financial Crime Newsletter
Track recent and prospective developments in our financial crime work and thinking.
View the latest issue [PDF]
"We must not lose sight of the fact that the purpose of our financial crime objective is to help in the fight against crime; crime that creates real and serious social harm like drug-dealing, people trafficking, fraud, market abuse - and terrorism."
Sir Callum McCarthy, former FSA Chairman