From Risk to Resilience - Conducting Effective Fraud Risk Assessments Under ECCTA

Introduction

As of 1 September 2025, a large organisation may be guilty of a new corporate criminal offence of Failure to Prevent Fraud unless they can demonstrate they (i) had reasonable prevention policies and procedures to minimise the risk of their personnel committing fraud for the benefit of their organisation; or (ii) did not require to have any prevention procedures.

This session will provide guidance on how corporate entities can enhance their existing compliance programmes with details on how to implement a risk-based compliance programme that is reasonable, proportionate and specific to the risks to their organisation or sector. It will ensure that businesses are ready for the implementation of ECCTA.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• A brief overview of the new corporate criminal offence of Failure to Prevent Fraud
• How to conduct risk assessments and implement reasonable policies and procedures
• Convictions, sentencing and other ancillary penalties of falling foul of the new law
• The expected approach by the criminal authorities

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.