Saturday, April 29, 2006

Banking fraud still a problem - amongst own team of staff

Someone told me the other day that they knew of a number of cases where a staff member in the IT department committed a major fraud, was detected, and then spirited out of the bank with a glowing reference to help them get another job with a competitor. Reason: too embarrassing to risk a public prosecution which would reveal the lax measures used by the bank to keep money and confidential client information secure.

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