Writer's block afflicts us all. From writing a love letter to an excuse for absence to a teacher, from a resignation letter to a speech or, panic, a book.. it's all writing and it's often difficult. Help is at hand (or at least in the mail...)

Writer's block afflicts us all. From writing a love letter to an excuse for absence to a teacher, from a resignation letter to a speech or, panic, a book.. it's all writing and it's often difficult. Help is at hand (or at least in the mail...)

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Vortex Centrum Limited, led by Nigel Morris-Cotterill, a financial crime risk strategy pioneer with more than 30 years experience, has announced its new elearning service "FinancialCrimeTraining.com".

There is a very special launch offer for the first 33 purchasers. 

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The Financial Crime Forum and its sister The Economic Crime Forum have announced their combined programme for Jan - March 2026.

U.S.-based business intelligence firm OffshoreAlert has noticed a significant increase in high-value, Asia-related liquidation and fraud cases being filed at commercial courts in Caribbean offshore financial centres.

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From dangerous counterfeits to unproven health and beauty products; from fake celebrity endorsements to romance scams, from sextorion to ransomware emails; from false invoicing scams to commercial scare tactics, from fake concert etc. tickets to fictitious CVs, fraud is everywhere and targets everyone in every aspect of their lives.

It is imperative that conversations about fraud become ordinary.

SAFE WORD: NO is the way to achieve that.

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SAFE WORD: NO is a new approach to fraud mitigation. The book is not a self-help book, it's a help-someone-else book.

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In 1907, Thomas W. Lawson published "Friday the Thirteenth", a novel about market abuse in the New York Stock Exchange. Lawson was a broker-dealer and knew his subject well. In the new book "Cut-Throats and Brigands: Blood on the (Wall) Street", Nigel Morris-Cotterill provides background and commentary and draws attention to the points of failure in stock market crises over three hundred years and show how the same factors are present today despite technology and regulation. Regulators and Market Practitioners will learn that history does, literally, repeat itself.

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Following the withdrawal of titles by Vortex Centrum and Nigel Morris-Cotterill from Amazon's Kindle service as a result of counterfeiting and fraud, Vortex Centrum has launched its own e-book line: P.Y.O. Books.

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Lawyers and others in Australia have long delayed the imposition of regulations to require them to detect, deter and report money laundering and other offences.

But pressure has been mounting and finally the Australian government has recognised that it Tranche II of its financial crime regulatory regime must be brought into effect soon. "Soon" may be as early as Q1 2025.

In October 2024, Nigel Morris-Cotterill, a pioneer in financial crime risk and compliance and himself a former legal practitioner and the author of several books including the forthcoming "Financial Crime and Lawyers" (a provisional title) will take undertake a seminar tour of the Capital Cities of Australia .