Criminal Investigations, Enforcement Actions, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Khouri: Is UK-US Extradition on Its Way to Becoming an Ex-Tradition?

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/3/2025

On 12 February 2025, the UK Supreme Court handed down its decision in El-Khouri v Government of the United States of America (El-Khouri), declining to extradite Joseph El-Khouri to the US. The ruling marks a pivotal moment in...more

FCA publishes its 2022/23 Annual Report and Enforcement data

BCLP on 7/28/2023

The FCA released its 2022/23 Annual Report last week together with data on its key enforcement trends. We consider below some of the key takeaways....more

The results are in: Our top 10 enforcement insights from the FCA’s Annual Report for 2022/23

A&O Shearman on 7/26/2023

Last week, the FCA published its Annual Report for 2022/23, which included the usual FCA annual enforcement performance data. Below we have selected 10 key points from the Annual Report that are interesting from an...more

Dual-Track Money Laundering Investigations: One-Way Traffic?

WilmerHale on 5/14/2019

Speaking at the Global Investigations Review Live event in London on 4th April, Mark Steward, Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), addressed the audience on three...more

Spotlight on Money Laundering

BCLP on 4/1/2019

The National Crime Agency’s use of the Unexplained Wealth Order regime has also created high profile headlines exposing lavish spending habits of individuals whose wealth is unexplained. It is this political focus, along with...more

Cross-Border Investigations Update - November 2017

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/2/2017

This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a close look at recent cases, regulatory activity and other key developments, including new U.K. reporting obligations for sanctions violations,...more