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Closure of investigation into KPMG’s audit of HBOS plc
September 19th, 2017
The Financial Reporting Council (‘FRC’) announces the closure of its investigation into the conduct of KPMG’s audit of HBOS plc for the year ended 31 December 2007. The Executive Counsel to the FRC has, following a detailed investigation, concluded ...
Ex-HBOS Bankers Accused of Getting Travel, Escorts in Fraud
September 27th, 2016
Defendants mismanaged troubled businesses for their own gain Participants used cash and high-class escorts as rewards Ex-HBOS Plc bankers accepted expensive gifts, luxurious foreign travel and high-class escorts to establish relationships that allowed co-conspirators to take control of troubled ...
FRC to investigate KPMG over HBOS audit
June 29th, 2016
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has announced it will be holding an investigation under the accountancy scheme into the conduct of KPMG’s audit of HBOS for the year ended 31 December 2007, after coming under severe criticism for failing ...
FRC to publish HBOS findings in the Spring
March 31st, 2016
Britain’s accounting watchdog aims to publish a full report in coming weeks into how banking group HBOS was audited by KPMG before the lender collapsed in 2008 during the financial crisis. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has come ...
FCA and PRA announced that will start investigations into HBOS senior managers
January 29th, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have decided to start investigations into certain former HBOS senior managers. These investigations will determine whether or not any prohibition proceedings should be commenced against them. The FCA ...
KPMG Audit plc’s audit of HBOS plc
January 22nd, 2016
The Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Conduct Committee has reviewed the full report from the PRA and FCA into the failure of HBOS plc. and has asked the FRC’s Executive Counsel to undertake preliminary enquiries under the Accountancy Scheme, the ...
KPMG in hot water over HBOS collapse
December 16th, 2015
The “big four” auditing firm KPMG has found itself under renewed pressure over its role in signing off HBOS’s books in the years before the bank collapsed. The Bank of England/Financial Conduct Authority report did not specifically evaluate KPMG’s ...
MP calls for FRC accounting body to investigate KPMG over HBOS
December 14th, 2015
Britain’s accounting standards watchdog has made a “serious mistake” in refusing to open a formal investigation into accountancy firm KPMG over the way it checked the books of HBOS bank before it collapsed, a senior UK lawmaker said on ...
HBOS and KPMG tensions exposed by report
November 24th, 2015
TENSIONS between HBOS’s senior management and the bank’s auditor KPMG have been exposed in the long-awaited bumper report into the financial institution’s epic failure. The 500-page tome, which took over three years and £7m to compile, reveals that the ...
Publication of the PRA and FCA review into the failure of HBOS
November 19th, 2015
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are today publishing the review into the failure of HBOS Group. This review was originally started by the former regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Its purpose is ...
