Publication
Government Investigations in Singapore 2025
We have contributed the Singapore chapter of Getting the Deal Through, Government Investigations 2025.
Canada | Publication | April 6, 2020 – 3 PM ET
The fraud triangle is a well-known tool in understanding fraud. The three sides – opportunity, incentive, and rationalization – offer an explanation to a person’s decision to commit fraud. Similarly, they offer guides to preventing fraud: by addressing the three sides of the triangle, an organization can reduce its risk of fraud.
In a financial crisis, such as we are seeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, all three sides of the fraud triangle indicate an organization is at heightened risk of fraud. Individuals and companies facing serious financial pressure have incentive to commit fraud. Where there are staff reductions, employees working from home, or management focused on critical functions only, unique opportunities arise for committing fraud. Finally, the extreme stress of the pandemic offers ample rationalizations. It is the perfect storm for fraud. As such, companies need to pay more attention than ever to appropriate controls and procedures to prevent and detect instances of fraud.
An organization should consider the following as part of its fraud prevention controls:
Fraud risk management is an important business function in these uncertain times. Companies that fail to enforce strong controls will face the consequences in the months and years to come.
Publication
We have contributed the Singapore chapter of Getting the Deal Through, Government Investigations 2025.
Publication
The private credit market and direct lending have grown and diversified immensely in the past decade, offering alternative sources and terms of debt compared to those historically provided by the syndicated leveraged loan and public issuance markets. Consequently, they are fast becoming pivotal components in the capital ecosystem, so much so that the Bank of England consider that the private credit market is currently responsible for approximately $1.8 trillion of debt issuance, which is four times its size in 2015. This growth has been particularly pronounced in Europe and the US but there has also been significant activity in Asia.
Publication
The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Regulation, commonly referred to as the AI Act, is expected to come into force during the summer of 2024 (the AI Act). The AI Act will be the first comprehensive legal framework for the use and development of artificial intelligence (AI), and is intended to ensure that AI systems developed and used in the EU are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory and environmentally friendly.
Subscribe and stay up to date with the latest legal news, information and events . . .
© Norton Rose Fulbright LLP 2023