PwC fined £15m by FCA after London Capital & Finance fraud failure Legal PwC has been fined £15m by the Financial Conduct Authority after it failed to alert the regulator that London Capital & Finance (LCF) might be involved in fraudulent activity. In the first ever fine issued by the FCA to an audit firm, the watchdog said that PwC had encountered “significant issues” throughout their 2016 audit [...]
PwC and EY handed multimillion-pound fines for London Capital & Finance audits legal Three firms, including PwC and Ernst & Young (EY), have been handed fines by the accounting watchdog for their audits of London Capital & Finance (LCF), a minibonds firm which took money from almost 12,000 investors before collapsing in 2019.
