Compliance Tip of the Day: Why Engage in Pre-acquisition Due Diligence
Compliance Tip of the Day: Bringing Predictive Analytics into Your Compliance Regime
Compliance into the Weeds: Sanctions Compliance Failures: Lessons from Harman International and Interactive Brokers
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
Compliance Tip of the Day: Assessing Internal Controls
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Objective 5 – Monitoring Activities
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Objective 2 - Risk Assessment
FCPA Compliance Report: Fraud Risk Management - Insights and Experiences with Peter Schablik
#Risk New York Speaker Series – Inside Behavioral Insights: Tom Hardin on Compliance at #RiskNYC
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Framework
#Risk New York Speaker Series: Exploring AI Risks in Compliance with Gwen Hassan
Healthcare Enterprise Risk Management
Compliance Tip of the Day: Assessing Internal Controls in International Operations
Managing Sanctions Compliance
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 68 - Why Geopolitical Risk Matters to Compliance and Legal Staff with Mark Nuttal and Chad Olsen
FCPA Compliance Report: Amanda Carty on a Due Diligence and Risk Management
Episode 364 -- Five Strategies to Mitigate a New Risk Environment
Strengthening Compliance: Lessons From the OCC's Consent Order With Patriot Bank — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Compliance and AI: Ali Khan on Implementing AI Risk Management Systems
Compliance Tip of the Day: Superforecasting
We welcome and are grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this call for views on the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) international data transfers guidance and more generally, on the most beneficial regulatory...more
On 21 July 2025, the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) published guidance regarding sanctions compliance in the cryptoasset sector. The publication is an assessment of threats to UK financial sanctions in...more
The recent conviction of London-based art dealer Oghenochuko Ojiri marks a watershed moment for financial crime enforcement in the UK's regulated sector. For the first time, a conviction has been secured under section 21A of...more
RUSSIA SANCTIONS - UK Government extends Mongolian Energy Payments General Licence: On August 7, 2025, OFSI extended General Licence INT/2022/2085212, which authorises payments to four Russian banks or their subsidiaries...more
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
On 21 July 2025, the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) published a sector-specific Cryptoassets Threat Assessment (“the Report”), shedding light on the evolving risks and vulnerabilities in the crypto...more
The UK's Online Safety Act (the "Act") is a transformative piece of legislation and is introducing extensive online safety obligations for user-to-user services, search services and pornography platforms. The Act encompasses...more
HM Treasury has published its latest 2025 National Risk Assessment (NRA) of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, offering a comprehensive review of the UK's exposure to financial crime. Building on the 2015, 2017, and...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the findings of its multi-firm review into risk management and wind-down planning across e-money and payment firms. While the FCA had observed examples of good practice...more
The United Kingdom’s (UK) Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has begun a public consultation on a legislative proposal to reform the Great Britain (GB) Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation. HSE notes that GB...more
In the next phase of Online Safety Act implementation, children’s safety duties and related codes of practice will come into full effect on 25 July 2025....more
Among all the elements of a corporate compliance program, perhaps the most difficult piece to understand is the testing and monitoring of your controls. Clearly the two are important. The U.S. Justice Department says so in...more
A Q&A with Adrienne Braumiller, and Olivia Van Pelt. Question 1: How are you advising businesses in your jurisdiction when protecting themselves from the impact of trade wars and sanctions, and what strategies can...more
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published guidance for trustees on new models and options for DB and hybrid pension schemes. While some of these are endgame options, the guidance also covers options for improving financial...more
Back in March 2025, we published an article highlighting that Ofcom will be turning up the heat to ramp up pressure on platforms in relation to their duties to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA). There has been a flurry of...more
On April 24, 2025, the UK’s Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom—the regulator responsible for enforcing the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA)—issued its Protecting Children from Harm Online Statement. The statement...more
In its first-ever threat assessment of the UK legal sector, the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has raised red flags with regards to suspected sanctions breaches involving UK legal services providers...more
On 6 April 2025, the unfair commercial practices provisions of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCC Act) entered into force, ushering in a new enhanced consumer enforcement regime administered by the...more
Under the UK Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), a wide range of online services are subject to extensive new obligations related to illegal content and content harmful to children....more
Rather than our usual Two Minute Monthly employment law round-up, we are posting for March 2025 a blog by Partner Katherine Pope on the nature and purpose of risk assessments in complying with the sexual harassment...more
The guidelines specify the requirements for data controllers to conduct risk assessments related to the transfer or disclosure of personal data outside the Kingdom. ...more
From today, online platforms are expected to have risk assessments in place to understand how likely it is for its users to encounter illegal content on their service....more
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has published a second consultation on payment transparency, and in particular proposed revisions to recommendation 16 (R.16). The revisions adapt the FATF Standards to the changes in...more
The UK’s Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) is a comprehensive piece of legislation designed to regulate social media companies and search services and to increase protections for individuals online. It draws comparisons to the...more
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