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Failure to Prevent Fraud Training
Help employees understand fraud risk, recognise warning signs and know when something needs to be questioned or escalated.
A practical eLearning course connecting the UK Failure to Prevent Fraud offence with the decisions employees make around information, reporting, investor communications and business processes.
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Why This Training Matters
Failure to Prevent Fraud — the regulatory landscape has changed
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 introduced a corporate offence of Failure to Prevent Fraud.
The offence came into force on 1 September 2025.
For organisations within scope, understanding how fraud can arise through employees, agents and other associated persons is now an important part of managing corporate fraud risk.
Corporate liability can arise
A large organisation can face criminal liability where an associated person commits a specified fraud offence intending to benefit the organisation and the organisation did not have reasonable fraud-prevention procedures in place.
Associated persons matter
Fraud risk is not limited to the actions of directors or senior management. Employees, agents and others providing services for or on behalf of an organisation can be relevant to the offence.
Awareness supports stronger controls
Government guidance identifies communication, including training, as one of the principles supporting reasonable fraud-prevention procedures, alongside areas such as risk assessment, due diligence and monitoring.
The Organisational Challenge
Fraud risk can begin with an everyday decision
Misleading information, poor validation, weak documentation or a concern that is never raised can create exposure long before an issue is formally identified as fraud.
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Employees influence the information the organisation relies on
Financial figures, investor communications, external reports and supplier information can all create risk when facts are inaccurate, incomplete or misleading.
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Pressure can change behaviour
Commercial targets, fundraising pressure and tight deadlines can increase the importance of employees knowing when information needs to be checked or challenged.
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Small warning signs can be easy to overlook
Employees need to recognise inconsistencies, weak audit trails, unusual behaviour and resistance to reasonable questions.
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Early escalation matters
Employees should understand that a concern does not need to be proven fraud before it is raised through the appropriate internal channel.
Course Overview
Help employees connect risk with everyday behaviour
Fraud prevention is not only a concern for senior leaders, Compliance or Legal.
Employees across an organisation may create, review, communicate or rely on information that affects investors, financial records, suppliers and business decisions.
This course helps learners understand the Failure to Prevent Fraud context, recognise relevant warning signs and understand the importance of raising concerns when something appears unclear, unusual or suspicious.
Learning Outcomes
Build confidence to recognise and respond
Learners connect fraud-prevention principles with the information, behaviour and decisions they may encounter at work.
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Understand the Failure to Prevent Fraud context
Understand why the corporate offence matters and how associated-person activity can create organisational exposure.
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Recognise relevant fraud risks
Identify behaviours including false representation, failure to disclose information and false accounting.
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Identify warning signs
Notice inconsistent information, resistance to questions, unusual behaviour and weak documentation.
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Know when to question information
Recognise why relying on assumptions or unverified information can create risk.
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Escalate concerns appropriately
Understand why early reporting is important and the internal channels that may be available.
Certification
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Who Should Take This Course?
Fraud prevention involves people across the organisation
The course reinforces that preventing and identifying fraud risk is not limited to senior management or control functions.
It is especially relevant where employees prepare, review, communicate or rely upon information that can influence investors, financial records, external reporting, suppliers or commercial decisions.
- 01 Investment & Deal Teams
- 02 Finance, Accounting & Fund Operations
- 03 Business Operations providing external reporting
- 04 Sales, Distribution & Investor Relations
- 05 Procurement & Third-Party/Vendor Management
Identifying Fraud Risk
Recognising Fraud Risk - know what to watch for
Fraud risk does not always start with an obvious act of misconduct. Learners should be alert to warning signs in information, behaviour and business processes.
Incomplete or inconsistent information
Figures, explanations or supporting information do not align, or change without a clear reason.
Over-reliance on a single source
Important decisions or communications depend on information that has not been independently corroborated.
Lack of transparency or resistance to questions
Someone avoids reasonable scrutiny, becomes defensive or discourages further review.
Unethical or suspicious behaviour
Conduct appears inconsistent with expected standards, processes or organisational values.
Missing documentation or weak audit trails
Important decisions, adjustments or transactions lack appropriate records or supporting documentation.
Uncertainty about whether something is right
Information, instructions or behaviour feels unusual, unclear or inconsistent with normal expectations.
Reporting
A concern does not need to be proven fraud before it is raised
The course reinforces prompt escalation where behaviour may involve fraud, misconduct or a breach of internal controls.
Early reporting gives the organisation an opportunity to understand the issue, investigate where necessary and take appropriate action.
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Line manager Raise a concern through the appropriate management route.
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Compliance or Legal Seek guidance where something may involve fraud, misconduct or an internal-control concern.
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Speak-up or whistleblowing channel Use the organisation's established reporting process where appropriate.
Your role
Fraud prevention begins with everyday choices
Honesty, transparency, appropriate challenge and a willingness to raise concerns all contribute to an organisation's fraud-risk culture.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Failure to Prevent Fraud training FAQs
Key questions for Compliance, Risk, Legal and Learning & Development teams.
What is the Failure to Prevent Fraud offence?
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 created a corporate Failure to Prevent Fraud offence. It can apply to large organisations where an associated person commits a specified fraud offence intending to benefit the organisation and reasonable fraud-prevention procedures were not in place.
When did the offence come into force?
The Failure to Prevent Fraud offence came into force on 1 September 2025.
Why does employee training matter?
Employees can influence information, financial records, reporting and commercial decisions. Government guidance on reasonable fraud-prevention procedures includes communication, including training, among its six principles.
Who is this course relevant for?
Fraud prevention is relevant throughout an organisation. The course highlights Investment and Deal Teams, Finance and Fund Operations, external-reporting functions, Sales and Investor Relations, and Procurement and Third-Party Management as functions that should be particularly alert.
What warning signs does the course cover?
Examples include incomplete or inconsistent information, reliance on one source, resistance to questions, suspicious behaviour, missing documentation, weak audit trails and uncertainty about whether an action is appropriate.
What should an employee do if something feels unclear?
The course reinforces early escalation. Employees should not wait until fraud has been conclusively proven before raising an appropriate concern.
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