Intelligence Brief
Before You Adopt a Fraud Lifecycle
A sequence beats a list of warning signs. But most of the lifecycles on offer end too early, model one crime and speak in conclusions. Five questions to settle before you build on one.
What 'Safekeeping' Sounds Like
A guilty plea in California puts a courier's script on the record, and the key word is one a teller or adviser can hear.
The Story Is the Costume
What twenty-four federal romance and pig-butchering prosecutions in Larigent's case database say about how the money actually moves, who gets prosecuted, and where a professional could have stopped it
Five Became Ten
FINRA's proposed universal fraud delay doubled between the January notice and the version filed with the SEC. Firms briefed on the notice are briefed on a superseded number.
A New Line Into FINRA
The regulator's 2026 oversight report names a fraud-intelligence channel and a dedicated focus on Trusted Contact Persons
A Six-Year Sweepstakes Scheme Ends in a 66-Month Sentence
What a Brooklyn courtroom confirms this month about how prize-fraud schemes get built to last