Polsinelli Podcast - The Climate for I9 Audits in 2015
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 131, The FCPA Professor Takes a Look Back at 2014
Foreign regulators continue to intensify their efforts to combat bribery and corruption. France’s Anti-Corruption Agency (L’Agence française anticorruption or AFA) recently published its year-in-review for 2024, which showed...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its business plan for 2024/25. Reducing and preventing financial crime, championing consumer needs and strengthening the UK’s position in global wholesale markets all...more
On 20 July 2023, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending March 2023 (the “Report”). The Report represents the first opportunity to assess progress made in the...more
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
We recently wrote about data published by HMRC in August 2020 which provided some insight into the impact of Covid-19 on HMRC’s compliance activities. Since then, on 5 November 2020, HMRC published more recent data for the...more
The year 2019 has been something of a mixed bag for the UK’s criminal and regulatory authorities. While the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) and Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) appear to have taken involuntary sabbaticals...more
On 9 July 2019, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) released its Enforcement Annual Performance Report for 2018/19 (the “Report”). Complementing the wider FCA Annual Report, it provides an overview of the FCA’s...more
On July 9, 2019, the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its latest Enforcement annual performance report for the year 2018/19. This follows the publication of its final FCA Mission: Approach to...more
INTRODUCTION: RECENT TRENDS AND PATTERNS IN FCPA ENFORCEMENT - Although FCPA enforcement across the 2018 calendar year seemed to ebb and flow, in retrospect the enforcement agencies brought a typical number of enforcement...more
The U.K. Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has published its Annual Review for the period from April 2017 to March 2018. OFSI was established in March 2016 with the objective of raising awareness of financial...more
In a speech delivered earlier this year to the AFME European Compliance and Legal Conference1, Mark Steward, Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight for the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), addressed the agency’s...more
Shearman & Sterling’s bi-annual Trends & Patterns in FCPA Enforcement report provides insightful analysis of recent enforcement trends and patterns in the US, the UK and elsewhere, as well as helpful guidance on emerging best...more
Washington spent much of this week digging out from a monster snow storm which left the government closed for two full days and reporting for work on a delayed based for two others. Two recent reports from Cornerstone...more