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UK Govt on The Economic Crime Act 2022

The aim of the Act is to increase the transparency of ownership of UK property by overseas entities, by identifying the beneficial owners of those entities. ‘Overseas entities’ owning ‘qualifying property’ are required to register and…

SRA risk outlook report on information security & cybercrime

This report covers what can be done by firms to seize some of those opportunities. It highlights notable innovations in the legal market, as well as the appetite and opportunity for investment into law sector innovations in the next few years…

HM Treasury on Digital Settlement Asset firms

HMT consults on managing the failure of systemic Digital Settlement Asset (including stablecoin) firms. This set out the government’s judgement that there is a strong case for bringing stablecoin with the capacity to be used for payments into the UK regulatory…

HMRC on cancellation of AML supervision

HMRC publishes list of businesses whose registration for Anti-money laundering supervision has been suspended or cancelled 2021 to 2022. The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations…

ComplyAdvantage publishes AML guide for cryptos

The biggest challenge that crypto firms operating across multiple jurisdictions continue to face is the lack of standardized regulation across countries and differing approaches to how to treat cryptoassets. Governments have adopted divergent approaches…

HMRC Guidance on supervised business register

Only businesses registered for supervision by HMRC will appear. The name a business is registered under may be different from the name you’re familiar with if, e.g., they’re included under the registration of another business…

BVI premier Andrew Fahie replaced after drugs arrest

British Virgin Isles replace premier, Andrew Fahie, following arrest on drug smuggling and ML charges. A no-confidence motion in Andrew Fahie, was backed by the overseas territory’s assembly…

Abacha millions recovered by NCA

NCA recovers almost $23.5m diverted out of Nigeria in the 1990s by the associates and family of former Nigerian Head of State, General Sani Abacha. The funds form part of a larger pool of monies identified by the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ)…

FCA on challenger banks’ financial crime controls

A review by the FCA has found that challenger banks need to improve how they assess financial crime risk, with some failing to adequately check their customers’ income and occupation. In some instances, challenger banks did not have financial crime risk assessments in place…

HMRC webinars on money laundering supervision

HMRC updates recorded webinars on money laundering supervision – information on businesses, Accountancy service providers, Estate agency businesses, High value dealers, Money service businesses…

Home Office on Joint Fraud Taskforce meetings

The Home Office presented an overview of the draft Plan. It has identified key pillars to strengthen leadership and cooperation across the public and private sectors. The UK Intelligence Community are also doing work to prevent frauds from reaching…

NCA releases March edition of SARs in Action

The scale of money laundering impacting the UK is in excess of £100bn a year. This is through abuse of UK financial institutions, UK company structures, markets and property. A significant portion is linked to corrupt elites…