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The Wolfsberg Group (the Group) has released a statement reaffirming its commitment to the risk-based approach (RBA) for financial crime risk management. Further to its 2006 RBA guidance, and in line with the Financial Action...more
In this weekly update, we summarise the most notable updates in the UK sanctions world....more
On 8 May 2025, the United Kingdom’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) of HM Treasury published a penalty notice regarding a breach of financial sanctions by a UK registered company—Svarog Shipping & Trading...more
Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast that brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you the compliance professional and the compliance stories you need to...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has updated its webpage on cash-based money laundering and confirmed its intention to carry out a multi-firm review in this area in the financial year 2025/2026. ...more
The UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) has published its annual report on suspicious activity reports (SARs) for the period between April 2023 and March 2024. The annual report structure has been updated due to a number...more
Banks and EMIs will need to consider the impacts of proposed new requirements to comply with information notices and account direct deduction orders on their policies, procedures and controls. For information notices, this...more
The Financial Conduct Authority has published a report on assessing and reducing the risk of Money Laundering Through the Markets. Money Laundering Through the Markets is the use of capital markets to launder criminally...more
The UK’s Authorised Push Payment (APP) Fraud Reimbursement Scheme came into force on October 7, 2024. It requires in-scope payment service providers (PSPs) sending payments through either the Faster Payment System (FPS) or...more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently levied a jaw-dropping £29 million fine against Starling Bank (Starling). The fine follows an investigation by the regulator, which exposed the bank's "shockingly lax" sanctions...more
The UK Court of Appeal recently held that the National Crime Agency’s decision not to investigate whether cotton goods manufactured in China and imported to the UK were the product of forced labour was unlawful — a decision...more
As financial crime compliance pressures grow, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) continues to emphasise the significance of its Financial Crime Guide (FCG) as part of the overarching regulatory framework for financial...more
Authorised push payment (APP) fraud in the UK is the largest type of payment fraud, both in number of scams and value of losses. It involves a fraudster convincing someone to send a payment to a bank account that the...more
Fighting financial crime, protecting consumers’ needs, and bolstering wholesale markets are the regulator’s key priorities for the year ahead. On 19 March 2024, the FCA published its Business Plan for 2024/25, setting...more
There were some key publications this week in relation to financial crime, including a Commission request for the EBA to advise on standards and guidelines under the future AML/CFT framework in Europe and, in the UK, an HMT...more
November 16, 2023- The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has updated its Beneficial Ownership Information FAQs to include new questions about the reporting process, reporting companies, beneficial owners,...more
With so many new, emerging risks coming to the forefront, ACI is excited to announce our Digital Assets Compliance: AML, Sanctions and Regulatory Oversight. Unlike other conferences, this highly anticipated event stands apart...more
Financial services firms are already subject to significant obligations to prevent financial crime. The proposed introduction of the new failure to prevent fraud offence will no doubt prompt the question within such...more
If your organisation is both supervised under the UK Money Laundering Regulations (“MLR”) and your UK Revenue exceeds £10.2 million per year, if you are not already, you will need to prepare for the forthcoming Economic Crime...more
The UK’s Financial Services Regulatory Initiatives Forum published this week the delayed sixth edition of its regulatory initiatives grid. HMT published a call for evidence on aligning the ring fencing and resolution regimes...more
On 20 January 2023, the High Court in London issued a historic judgment in relation to the World Uyghur Congress’ (WUC) challenge to the UK government’s failure to investigate the importation of cotton produced in China’s...more
Firms that act as financial gate-keepers have obligations to report suspicions or knowledge of money laundering via Suspicious Activity Reports to the National Crime Agency ("NCA"). SARs have been filed for almost 20 years...more
The so-called ‘Quincecare duty’ has received heightened attention in the English courts in recent years. The duty requires a bank not to execute a customer’s payment instructions where, and for so long as, the bank has...more
The House of Commons Treasury Committee has published a report on the Future of Financial Services Regulation setting out its view on the priorities for regulatory change in the U.K. now that the U.K. has left the EU. The...more
Following its 2021 consultation on targeted amendments to the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (the MLRs), the U.K. government has published a...more