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Fraud Corporate Transparency Act United Kingdom

Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain. 
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Recent Developments for UK PLCs June 2025

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On 3 June 2025, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published the UK Stewardship Code 2026. The new Code, effective from 1 January 2026, aims to foster long-term sustainable value creation and improve engagement quality...more

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The New UK Procurement Regime and the Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act: Heightened Exclusion & Debarment Risks

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The UK Procurement Act 2023 (the Procurement Act) came into force on 24 February 2025. It introduced significant changes to the UK public procurement landscape including a new regime for suppliers to be excluded from a...more

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The UK Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act 2023: What companies need to know and what they can do to prepare

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The UK Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act 2023 sets out two major reforms making it much easier for UK authorities to prosecute corporate wrongdoing: - it substantially increases the circumstances in which a company...more

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Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023: where are we and what’s next?

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The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) has made, and will continue to make, significant amendments to company law in the UK. Since the first raft of company law changes implementing parts of ECCTA...more

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The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Commencement No.4) Regulations

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The fourth commencement regulations made under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) have been published. Regulation 2 brought into force on 18 March certain provisions in Parts 1 and 2 of the Act....more

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Preparing Organisations for the New UK Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence

Fraud is the most common offence in the UK, amounting to 41% of all crime.  On 26 October 2023, the UK’s long-awaited Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 20232  (the Act) received Royal Assent, setting out...more

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Enhancing Corporate Fraud Prevention: Guidance on the Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence

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The final UK Government guidance on failure to prevent fraud has now been published Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023: Guidance to organisations on the offence of failure to prevent fraud (accessible version)...more

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UK Government Publishes Guidance on the New ‘Failure to Prevent Fraud’ Offence

On 6 November 2024, the UK government published its guidance on the new ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence, which was introduced in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023).1 We covered the details...more

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The UK Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2024 Published

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The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2024 have been published. The Regulations bring into force certain provisions of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023....more

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UK Government Publishes Guidance on “Failure to Prevent Fraud” Offence

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Guidance clarifies the implementation date, scope, and application of landmark new corporate offence, and provides suggestions for fraud-prevention procedures. On 6 November 2024, the UK Home Office published...more

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It’s Here: U.K. Statutory Guidance for the Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence

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The Guidance to organisations on the offence of failure to prevent fraud, (the Guidance), introduced under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) has finally been published by the U.K. Government. With...more

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UK Government Publishes Guidance for Companies on the New Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence

Headlines - •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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

New ‘Failure To Prevent Fraud’ Offence Expected To Come Into Force in the UK Shortly

The UK government introduced a major overhaul of its framework for addressing financial crime — and brought into force numerous significant changes — when the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act)...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK White Collar Crime Outlook

Below is a summary of recent developments and enforcement trends in the UK white collar crime space in the first quarter of 2024. I. New Legislation - The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA)...more

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UK corporate criminal liability: changes so far and changes coming – have you prepared?

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On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the "Act" or "EECTA")  received royal assent and became law. The Act introduced a number of changes, some of which came into effect immediately and...more

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ECCTA Moves Forward With Second Set Of Reforms

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On 4 March 2024, the second set of reforms to UK company law brought about by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 ("ECCTA") came into force. These introduce a major expansion of the powers of the Registrar...more

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The U.K. Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act’s New Responsibilities for Companies

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On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 became law. The new U.K. law is designed to fight corruption, money laundering and fraud, has major implications for businesses and will engender...more

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‘One eye across the Atlantic’ - The UK SFO Director’s Maiden Speech and Recent Visits to the United States Underscore the...

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The Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Nick Ephgrave QPM, delivered his maiden public speech on February, 13, 2024, closely followed by visits to key financial centres in the United States to meet with...more

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New UK Corporate Offence: The ‘Failure to Prevent Fraud’

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The recent passage of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 marked a significant moment in the UK government’s commitment to improving its economic crime legislative framework with the aim to deter and...more

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Companies House to impose new ID verification requirements

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The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (“ECCTA”) introduces changes to UK company law to ensure accuracy of public information and reduce the possibility of fraud. Some of the key points are:...more

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Corporate Criminal Liability Reform: How Much Further Can the UK Go?

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The landscape for tackling corporate crime in the UK is undergoing significant change, with a focus on empowering enforcement agencies to further hold large corporates to account for the conduct of their employees and...more

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Reforming the legal test for Corporate Criminal Liability in England – a panacea or a placebo?

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It’s certainly true that the UK criminal authorities have been crying out for a shot in the arm in the form of legislative reform, but will changing the law really help the Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") achieve more corporate...more

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UK Criminal Justice Bill proposes further reforms to the identification doctrine

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The UK government is already proposing further expansion to the basis on which companies can be fixed with criminal liability. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA), passed in October, significantly...more

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Fraud, Reform and the Registrar: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023

A year and a half after the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 received Royal Assent, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Act) came into law on 26 October 2023. Although the Act does...more

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New UK ‘Failure to Prevent Fraud’ Offence in Outline

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) received Royal Assent and became law on 26 October 2023. It contains a new ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence whereby large organisations will be held criminally...more

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