2025-12-15
19 分钟My colleague Martin Arnold, who's the FT's financial regulation editor,
has been reporting on the world of UK finance for many years.
And over time,
he's seen an ongoing hesitation on the part of regulators to pay corporate whistleblowers.
It's just not cricket, I think is what I would say in the UK.
I am unfamiliar with that phrase.
It's just not cricket.
What's that mean?
It's just not very gentlemanly to be doing it for money.
You should be doing it because it's the right thing to do anyway.
There's something slightly tainted, slightly commercial about it.
As recently as 2018, the head of the UK's serious fraud office,
which prosecutes financial crimes, said that paying whistleblowers just isn't British.
But the tide might be turning.
The SFO now has a new director, and he's become a major advocate for whistleblower rewards.
In the US, you're not embarrassed or ashamed, and nor should you be, of saying,
if you give us information that helps us convict a criminal, we're going to pay you for that.
That's Nick F.
Grave, the new head of the SFO.
I think that's an entirely good thing to do.