Fraud

Geopolitics Markets

First Brands Creditors Face Near-Total Loss as $11 Billion Fraud Unravels Leveraged Loan Market

Court-supervised asset sales yield pennies on the dollar as one of 2025's largest bankruptcies exposes catastrophic failures in private credit due diligence and off-balance sheet financing oversight.

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AI

The AI Phishing Industrial Complex: How Cybercriminals Weaponized Automation at Scale

Deepfake CEOs, voice-cloned executives, and LLM-generated emails are driving a 3,000% surge in AI-powered fraud, costing businesses $40 billion by 2027.

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Markets

London Court Awards Trafigura $700 Million in Nickel Fraud Case Against Indian Tycoon

Judge ruled Indian businessman Prateek Gupta orchestrated 'fraud on a grand scale,' marking one of the largest awards in commodities litigation and signaling tougher scrutiny of India's trading networks.

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