The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is entering the final year of its 2022-2025 strategy, which features a commitment to be more innovative, assertive and adaptable. Its 2024/25 Business Plan outlines how the regulator...more
3/29/2024
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Consultation ,
Enforcement ,
Enforcement Priorities ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Crimes ,
HM Treasury ,
Market Abuse ,
Strategic Planning ,
Supervision ,
UK
The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has updated its ‘enforcement and monetary penalties for breaches of financial sanctions’ guidance, which was last updated in June 2022. ...more
3/23/2023
/ Business Ownership ,
Change of Ownership ,
Compliance ,
Control Test ,
Due Diligence ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Guidance Update ,
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) ,
Penalties ,
Strict Liability ,
UK
Ten years have passed since the introduction of the UK’s primary anti-corruption law, the Bribery Act 2010 (“the Act”). This article examines the extent to which the Act has lived up to its billing as the international “gold...more
5/25/2021
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Criminal Liability ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Cross-Border ,
Deferred Prosecution Agreements ,
Enforcement ,
FOIA ,
Internal Controls ,
Jurisdiction ,
Law Enforcement ,
OECD ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act
On 13 October 2020 Transparency International (TI) published its annual report on enforcement of foreign bribery (the Report). The Report analyses foreign bribery enforcement in 43 of the 44 signatories to the Organisation on...more