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The Trap was in the words. By Ayleen Charlotte for DDL

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing has become less a framework and more a battlefield. What began as a well-intentioned movement to align capital with sustainability has devolved into a war of narratives, where ideology, lobbying, and regulatory capture threaten to undermine its credibility.

The October 2025 shutdown of the United States government is not merely a fiscal event. It is a linguistic theatre, a semantic battleground where power is wielded not just through policy, but through prose. In the spirit of New Fund Order, we must interrogate the narratives, not just the numbers. "In the Spirit of the New Fund Order, we must interrogate the narratives, not just the numbers." JB Beckett Read why...

Special Advisor to DDL, JB Beckett's Blog on Central Banking and Finance - and how FSLA cuts through the fog. "We are entering a new phase of monetary dysfunction, one where the old rules no longer apply, and the new ones are written in the shadows." Read more

Co- written by Author & Special Advisor to DDL, JB Beckett (#newfundorder) In the labyrinthian theatre of capital markets, where algorithms hum and narratives collide, the search for alpha has become a war of noise and attrition. Hedge funds, once the avant-garde of financial innovation, now find themselves in a crowded arena of sameness; quants chasing ticks, macros reading tea leaves, and long-short managers parsing balance sheets like sacred texts.

According to a BBC News article published on Thursday, 14th August 2025, a builder accused of defrauding customers of more than £2m denies his business was nothing but a pyramid scheme.

Today Deception Detection Lab and Ayleen Charlotte publish our first in a series of blogs about Romance Fraud. Ayleen highlights a number of linguistic elements used by The Tinder Swindler to gain her confidence and control her.

In early August 2025, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fined Neil Woodford and his investment management firm, Woodford Investment Management (WIM), a combined total of £46 million. Woodford was also banned from holding senior roles in the UK’s Financial Services industry.

The Language of Deception: How Words Can Break Us by Ayleen Charlotte  How is it possible that we fall in love through words? That a few carefully chosen sentences can make us feel pressure, trust, fear—or even hand over all our money? The linguistic power behind online scams has always fascinated me.   

JB Beckett, ex-investment gatekeeper, fund allocator and author of New Fund Order, has entered into an exciting collaborative association with Deception Detection Lab Ltd (DDL), as a Special Adviser.

BBC Radio 4 Moneybox Interview re: Mansion House Reforms

In today's digital landscape, the written word serves as both a bridge for communication and, unfortunately, a veil for those seeking to hide their true identity or intentions.

On 7th July, BBC News posted an article about Raynor Winn, author of ‘The Salt Path’ defending herself against claims she had misled readers.

This is the fourth and final blog in our series of blogs analysing Kingfisher PLC’s Earnings Call Q&A session for their full year results on 25th March 2025. 

This is the third in a small series of blogs analysing Kingfisher PLC’s Earnings Call Q&A session for their full year results on 25th March 2025.

Kingfisher PLC, the owner of B&Q and Screwfix, operates in multiple European countries, including the UK, France and Poland. Their stock is the third most shorted in the FTSE 100 with 6.8% of its equity share capital sold short by short sellers.

Kingfisher PLC, the owner of B&Q and Screwfix, operates in multiple European countries, including the UK, France and Poland. Their stock is the third most shorted in the FTSE 100 with 6.8% of its equity share capital sold short by short sellers.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a ‘Tell’ as being ‘an unconscious action that is thought to betray an attempted deception’.

True crime podcasts have exploded in popularity and for good reason. They take us into the minds of criminals, through courtroom drama, and behind closed doors of investigations.

In 2023, having purchased Charlie Javice’s company ‘Frank,’ JPMorgan filed a lawsuit alleging that Javice paid a data scientist professor $18,000 to contrive a list of more than 4 million fake student names in order to convince them of its value and to purchase the company for $175 million.

In today's rapidly evolving investigative landscape from law enforcement to finance, banking, and corporate compliance Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly prominent role

In the realm of criminal investigation, words can be as revealing as fingerprints.

In the age of dating apps and digital intimacy, love has never been more accessible or more vulnerable to deception

In a report published by The Guardian Online on 29th May, Manchester United Winger, Amad Diallo is reported to have been seen on social media making an obscene gesture to fans outside the team’s hotel in Kuala Lumpur. He claimed his actions were in response to fans who had insulted his mother.