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•The UK government has published its guidance on the new Failure to Prevent Fraud offence which will come into effect on 1 September 2025.
•Similar to the UK Bribery Act, the provisions introduced by the Economic...more
11/8/2024
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Due Diligence ,
Failure to Prevent ,
Financial Crimes ,
Fraud ,
Fraud Prevention ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
UK
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published its strategy for 2024–2029 on 18 April 2024, outlining its ambitious plans to become the “pre-eminent specialist, innovative and collaborative agency” in the fight against serious...more
As peak summer holiday season approaches, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) continues to remind the private sector of the importance of strict economic sanctions compliance. OFAC...more
7/15/2021
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Digital Currency ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Exchanges ,
ITSR ,
Moneygram ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Popular ,
U.S. Treasury
On 26 April 2021, the UK’s first sanctions under the Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/488) (“the Regulations”) came into force. The Regulations are made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering...more
5/21/2021
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Anti-Money Laundering ,
Bribery ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Drug Trafficking ,
Foreign Policy ,
Human Rights ,
Latin America ,
Misappropriation ,
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) ,
Sanctions ,
South Africa ,
Sudan ,
Terrorist Acts ,
UK
On 5 February 2021, the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the case of SFO v KBR, in which it unanimously held that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) cannot use its statutory power to gather information under section...more
Over the past four years in the United States, there has been an increasing disconnect between public and private action on climate. The current administration de-prioritized (and many believe sabotaged) any efforts to...more
11/19/2020
/ Auditors ,
Carbon Emissions ,
Climate Change ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Financial Reporting Council (FRC) ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Paris Agreement ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)