Defensible Fraud Investigations: Building an Audit Trail That Holds Up
A repudiation is only as defensible as the trail behind it. What a fraud investigation audit trail must capture, and how SIUs keep it without the admin.
A repudiation is only as defensible as the trail behind it. What a fraud investigation audit trail must capture, and how SIUs keep it without the admin.
When Sedgwick reported £41 million in fraud savings across 2025, representing an 11 per cent year-on-year uplift, that result reflects a well-run counter-fraud operation doing its job consistently across a full year. The ABI’s November…
Every counter-fraud operation runs on data. Detection models are fed data to identify suspicious patterns. Investigators draw on data to build their cases. Management information reports data to leadership as the evidence base for operational…
The number that most commonly leads a counter-fraud MI report is the referral count. How many cases came through last month, how that compares to the same period last year, and what the year-to-date total…