The sheer scale of the challenge facing fraud fighters (now put at £30bn by the National Fraud Authority) was doubtless very much on delegates’ minds as they gathered for this joint Fraud Advisory Panel/National Audit Office one-day conference on embedding fraud risk management.

As the NAO’s Mark Babington said in his welcome, with budgets shrinking, costs more difficult to justify and the resourcing of fraud-facing ‘back-office’ functions like internal audit coming under particular pressure, fraud-fighters everywhere are heading into troubled waters. More >>