Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A – International Issues
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the ECCTA and Its Impact on Fraud Prevention with Vince Walden
Everything Compliance: Episode 158, The No to Corruption in Ukraine Edition
Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the UK’s New Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense with Sam Tate
Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 157, The Q2 2025 Great Women in Compliance Edition
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Entering the US Banking Market
Great Women in Compliance: GWIC X EC Q2 2025 - Exploring Compliance Innovations
An Ounce of Prevention Podcast | The International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce and the Future of Global Enforcement
The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 24, 2025
Daily Compliance News: May 23, 2025, The Gutless Wonders Edition
Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, May 3, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 30, 2025, The 4 AM Wake-Up Call Edition
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Stablecoins: Regulatory Issues for UK and EU Banks To Consider
An Ounce of Prevention Podcast | Preparing for the UK Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence
Compliance into the Weeds: Global Anti-Corruption Leadership
New factors for investigating and enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act were recently released by head of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in, “Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement...more
On 24 April 2025, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") launched its updated External Guidance on Corporate Co-operation and Enforcement in relation to Corporate Criminal Offending (“Corporate Guidance”), cementing a bold...more
The United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published updated guidance on how corporates can best avoid or reduce the risk of prosecution in cases involving economic crimes such as bribery, fraud and corruption...more
On 24 April 2025, the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) issued new guidance to encourage companies to self-report suspected corporate wrongdoing. The guidance states that self-reporting, combined with full cooperation with the...more
Welcome to Secretariat’s April 2025 edition of Rebuilding Ukraine, where we explore the evolving landscape of Ukraine’s reconstruction, the challenges ahead, and the opportunities emerging. Stay informed with our insights on...more
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
The Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) has released its Business Plan for 2025-26, outlining significant changes and strategic initiatives aimed at combatting serious fraud, bribery, and corruption. The Plan is framed by the SFO...more
In our client alert, “The Case for Compliance: Why UK and EU Businesses Should Continue to Invest in Their Compliance Programs”, we highlighted seven reasons why, despite the US’ pause on bribery enforcement under the Foreign...more
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office has a lot going for it right now: a director hellbent on tackling complex fraud, bribery, and corruption, an enhanced budget, new partnerships to tackle international bribery and corruption...more
On 20 March 2025, enforcement authorities in the UK, France and Switzerland announced the creation of the International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce. The taskforce is comprised of: - The UK’s Serious Fraud...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more
Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Team discusses the UK’s new guidance on the “failure to prevent fraud” offense. The guidance addresses the “failure to prevent fraud” offense created by the Economic...more
On 1 September 2025, the corporate criminal offence of ‘failure to prevent fraud’ (“the Offence”), created by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (“ECCTA”), will come into force. On 6 November 2024, the...more
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
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published its new five-year strategy for 2024-2029 (the Strategy), setting out its ambitious aspirations to become a “pre-eminent specialist, innovative and collaborative agency which...more
Construction is a $1.7 trillion industry worldwide, contributing between 5 and 7 percent of GDP in most countries. However, it is also an industry that is highly vulnerable to corruption due to its inherent characteristics....more
Recent weeks have seen several notable developments in the UK criminal enforcement landscape...more
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published its strategy for 2024–2029 on 18 April 2024, outlining its ambitious plans to become the “pre-eminent specialist, innovative and collaborative agency” in the fight against serious...more
The Serious Fraud Office’s strategy for 2024 to 2029 indicates aspiration to be a more effective agency and to incentivise personnel. On 18 April 2024, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published an ambitious, albeit...more
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
Significant Expansion to Corporate Criminal Liability Becomes Law in the United Kingdom - On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (the Act) became law. Under the Act, corporations will become...more
The English Court has upheld a challenge to an US$11 billion arbitration award against Nigeria on grounds that it was obtained fraudulently and “only by practising the most severe abuses of the arbitral process”, contrary to...more
After a laborious passage through the United Kingdom Parliament, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (the Act) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. The Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) hailed...more
It is no great secret that criminal enforcement in the United Kingdom against corporations has lagged behind our counterparts in the United States and other jurisdictions. In recent years the UK government has introduced a...more
On 16 June 2023, the Government announced its proposed reforms to the “identification doctrine” for economic crime offences to be introduced in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. The reform will apply only to...more