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Helena Wood

Helena Wood Director of Public Policy and Strategic Engagement at Cifas

Challenging fraud behaviours – a matter of national prosperity

Cifas’ annual Fraud Behaviours Survey – research into public attitudes to committing fraud – is a useful bellwether into society’s attitudes to lying for financial gain. Year-on-year our fraud behaviours work has demonstrated a growing normalisation of fraud by the UK public and the findings in the latest survey are no exception. Nearly half (48%) ...

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Helena Wood

Helena Wood Director of Public Policy and Strategic Engagement at Cifas

From words to action: The outlook on fraud in the UK in 2025

If politicians and policymakers were feeling jubilant this time last year following indications of a 10% drop in the levels of fraud in the UK, the plateauing of fraud statistics and the early indications of increased fraud levels, may be cause for a more muted start to 2025. As Cifas' six-month data released last year showed, while fraud losses i...

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Helena Wood

Helena Wood Director of Public Policy and Strategic Engagement at Cifas

Driving the next generation of fraud reforms

With a General Election announced for 4 July, now is the perfect time for a stock take on the progress made over the past decade in relation to tackling fraud. For the most part, this was a decade in which fraud felt like the Cinderella of the criminal justice system; a crime neglected by politicians and police alike while other crime types receiv...

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Helena Wood

Helena Wood Director of Public Policy and Strategic Engagement at Cifas

Tackling money mule abuse of the financial sector – no place to hide

Money laundering is the lifeblood of organised criminals – put simply, without the ability to move and convert criminal proceeds into “clean” money to fund further crime and the lavish lifestyle criminals aspire to, organised crime gangs cease to function. It has long been known that organised fraud gangs rely heavily on the use of networks of so-c...

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