On 13th February 2024, in a wide-ranging speech, the Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Nick Ephgrave, publicly stated his provisional support for financial incentives to whistleblowers in allegations of...more
What is happening?
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the “Bill”) is currently going through the UK Parliament. On 11 April 2023, the Government introduced a draft amendment that will create a new...more
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On 18 April 2023, the UK’s Insolvency Service (“TIS”) published statistics on its enforcement activities and outcomes during the last financial year (the “Report”). The Report describes TIS’s enforcement...more
Introduction - The UK Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) issued a prohibition order against Mr Frensham based on his conviction for an offence which did not involve financial fraud or dishonesty and was unrelated to...more
The need for tighter control on employees’ use of chat applications when conducting or discussing company business. What we learned from the FCA’s 2020 Vishnyak prosecution and the FCA’s reminder about the need to record...more
At the end of June 2020, the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) issued a public censure to Redcentric PLC for market abuse resulting from significant accounting errors. The resolution is particularly eye-catching because...more
7/8/2020
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Compensation Schemes ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Inflated Financial Statements ,
Internal Investigations ,
Market Abuse ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Resignation ,
Self-Reporting ,
Settlement Negotiations ,
Shareholders ,
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The COVID-19 pandemic presents directors of all business entities with a profound and unprecedented set of challenges. Now more than ever, key decision-takers in businesses appreciate that their actions will...more
On 10 January 2020 the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (the “2019 Regulations”) came into force in the UK, implementing the EU’s fifth Money Laundering Directive (“MLD5”) and amending the...more