Fraud`s Role in the Financial Crisis and How to Control It 2015
13 Aug 2015
Webinar
Description
Topics
The fraudulent lending practices that engulfed the entire US mortgage industry, leading to the fatal deterioration of balance sheets and ultimate collapse of major players such as Washington Mutual, Wachovia, as well as untold thousands of unscrupulous mortgage brokers, appraisers and law firms
The culture of "anything goes" on Wall Street which fueled the innovation of exotic asset-backed securities whose riskiness and questionable legality went either unaddressed or underestimated to the devastating disadvantage of institutions that invested in them
The widespread fraudulent marketing of asset-backed securities, based on exaggerated or completely fictitious representations of risk levels, including the stunning indictments of two highly regarded Bear Stearns traders
The looting of major financial firms such as Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and others by their former senior executives just before the companies collapsed
The latter part of the presentation will address options for preventing similar disasters from recurring and will provide attendees with practical guidelines for protecting themselves and their companies from various forms of fraud that were found to have played a role in the current economic and financial crisis
Who should Attend
Accounts payable managers
Purchasing managers and senior staff
Accounting and audit practitioners
Shipping and receiving/supply chain managers
Controllers
CFOs and senior finance staff
Senior financial management seeking to reduce their vulnerability to costly frauds
Procurement executives
Security personnel
Compliance and ethics managers
Loss prevention and risk specialists
Internal control professionals
Procurement/purchasing and payables specialists
Fraud examiners
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Fraud`s Role in the Financial Crisis and How to Control It 2015 - 13 Aug 2015, Webinar (53214)
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