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''UK fraud prevention''.
(PBGC). ''US Pensions''.
An organisation set up by the US government to take over the assets and liabilities of insolvent pension funds and to provide limited guarantees as to the payment of pensions by those funds. 


(DCPCU).
The PBGC has wide powers to investigate US pension schemes and their sponsoring companies.


The UK's Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit is a special police unit comprising police officers drawn from the City of London and Metropolitan Police forces.
The equivalent in the UK is the Pension Protection Fund.  


The unit is fully sponsored by the banking industry, and supported by bank investigators and case support staff who have an ongoing brief to help stamp out organised card and cheque fraud across the UK.
== See also ==
 
* [[Pension Protection Fund]]
 
The unit responds to investigations on a nationwide basis including those involving:
 
*Cash machine fraud
*Insiders
*Card-not-present fraud
*Organised criminal groups/factories
 
 
==See also==
* [[CEO fraud]]
* [[Financial Fraud Action UK]]
* [[Forgery]]
* [[Fraud Advisory Panel]]
* [[Fraudulent trading]]
* [[Misrepresentation]]
* [[Segregation of duties]]
* [[Serious Fraud Office ]]
* [[Software robot]]
* [[United Kingdom]]
 
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Revision as of 13:57, 6 May 2013

(PBGC). US Pensions. An organisation set up by the US government to take over the assets and liabilities of insolvent pension funds and to provide limited guarantees as to the payment of pensions by those funds.

The PBGC has wide powers to investigate US pension schemes and their sponsoring companies.

The equivalent in the UK is the Pension Protection Fund.

See also