Companies and their Boards are struggling with increased regulatory burden and the risks associated with operating in emerging markets.  Regulators are challenging corporate compliance and governance models as companies aim to mitigate risk while shareholders expect growth.  The changing landscape for cross-border disputes, bribery and corruption and cyber-crime continues to test compliance and governance models, especially in new markets.  

The retail industry will lose an estimated $8.76 billion to return fraud this year, and $3.39 billion during the holiday season alone. Overall, 5.8 percent of holiday returns are fraudulent, up slightly from 4.6 percent last night.

Nearly half of financial frauds being uncovered involve criminals trying to use someone else’s stolen personal details, Experian warns. The credit checking company says that identity theft is a “significant and rising threat,” accounting for 46 percent of financial frauds detected this year – that’s almost double the rate of cases seen in 2012 (27 percent).

Shrink, comprised of shoplifting, employee or supplier fraud, organized retail crime and administrative errors, cost the retail industry more than $112 billion globally last year, according to the 2012-2013 Global Retail Theft Barometer, and represented 1.4 percent of retail sales, on average.

The number of companies falling victim to fraud has increased in the past year, according to the 2013 Kroll Global Fraud Report.

Nearly one in three victims of identity fraud chose to avoid specific merchants after falling victim to fraud, according to the 5^th Annual LexisNexis True Cause of Fraud study, which found that between 10 and 14 million U.S. consumers are victims of identity fraud every year.   

One financial analyst stole nearly $3.4 million from payments due to Medicaid, and the healthcare system only discovered the discrepancies after the worker's death last year. 

A just released survey by the Pew Research Center Internet Project finds that most Internet users would like to be anonymous online, but many think it is not possible to be completely anonymous online.

Huge differences in pay and involvement show that women in white-collar crime face sex segregation from their male fraudster counterparts.