Financial investigation | White-Collar Crime and Workplace Ethics

International financial investigator Jared Bibler led the initial inquiry into the 2008 Iceland financial crisis, precipitated by the collapse of the Nordic country’s three national banks.

Appointed by the Icelandic markets regulator, the Financial Supervisory Authority (FME), he and his team ultimately referred more than 30 criminal cases to the Special Prosecutor of Iceland, involving illegal loans and the banks buying their own shares to manipulate market prices.

In this article, Bibler, author of new book Iceland’s Secret: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Con—a revelatory forensic examination of one of the world’s largest financial crimes—offers guidance on how professionals should act if they uncover white-collar offences in their company.

By Jared Bibler CFA