Our compliance reviews are integral to maintaining high standards of data handling and ensuring that organisations are not only benefitting from accessing fraud information from others, they are also contributing information on their own fraud losses. We work closely with Cifas members to support them in training their teams and recording data appropriately.

168 National Fraud Database compliance annual reviews were carried out in 2015, with 90% achieving a Pass grade, 9% graded Room for improvement and 1% Ungraded. For the Internal Fraud Database, 93 reviews were completed, with 80% achieving a Pass grade, 10% being graded Room for Improvement and a further 9% not yet having used the database. One organisation did not pass the review as there was insufficient evidence of compliance, leading to suspension from membership while the organisation worked to put clearer procedures in place.