What can the UK learn from the US approach to rewarding whistleblowers?
In the UK, financial regulators regularly benefit when whistleblowers pass on information but they rarely step in to protect individuals if their employer penalizes them for speaking up. With the Serious Fraud Office and HMRC now planning to introduce US-style whistleblower reward schemes to compensate people who report corporate crime within their own organisation, for Financial Regulation International’s whistleblowing special issue, we explored what lessons could be learnt from across the pond.