All Money laundering and financial crime articles
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FeaturePreparing your firm for new rules on forming companies
(Sponsored content.) Nikoo Ordodary, Director, Business Law at legal software professionals Dye & Durham, explains how the Economic and Crime Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) can impact your firm.
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NewsWhistleblower solicitor condemns eight-year cum-ex litigation
High Court dismisses £1.4bn claim by Danish tax authority despite defendant's 'implausible claims and obvious lies'.
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News‘Actively dishonest’ partner helped misappropriate £2.4m
London firm found to be vicariously liable for solicitor’s ‘complete disregard for his professional obligations’.
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NewsSolicitors plead with Treasury to rethink extra AML burden
Proposed amendments to pooled client account will heap extra delays and costs, practitioners warn
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NewsLawyers reject ‘high risk’ rating for money laundering
Home Office and HM Treasury assessment has repeatedly ranked legal services providers as highly attractive to criminals.
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NewsIn depth: Lawyers advised on how to counter money laundering risk
Solicitors attending Law Society's economic crime conference urged not to treat risk assessments as tick-box exercises.
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NewsCity lawyers attack Leveson jury plan
Fraud proposals ‘risk an absolute and eternal abolition of fundamental rights to ostensibly fix a relatively short-term problem’.
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NewsIn focus: D-day for new 'failure to prevent' offence
SFO will be keen to bring the first prosecution for the new offence, so that companies ‘feel the bite’.
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OpinionA smorgasbord of navigable wisdom
Fiona du Feu reviews 'Risk and Compliance Questions and Answers (2nd edition)'.
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OpinionWarning signals
Fraud Markers, De-banking, and Financial Crime: A Legal Analysis of Counter-fraud Practices in the UK and Beyond.
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NewsBirmingham solicitor charged with money laundering
Offences relate to an 11-month period from 2020 to 2021.
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News£300,000 fine for US firm over historical AML breaches
Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal approves agreed outcome on the first day of the substantive hearing against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
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OpinionInvestment fraud exposed - the power of private prosecution
Under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, it is open to anyone to bring a criminal prosecution. It can be a powerful tool.
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NewsDentons appeal looks to Beckwith and Leigh Day precedents
Global firm says Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal's approach did ‘not undermine’ money laundering legislation or send ‘wrong message’ to the profession.
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NewsHong Kong convicts first solicitor for secrecy breach
Confidential information about fraud probe was shared with two individuals, Hong Kong court hears.
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OpinionLetters: Increased funding for the SFO
The Serious Fraud Office has been given an extra £9.3m of funding to improve its case management and evidence handling.
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OpinionBest law books of the year 2024
Heroes fact and fiction, legal thrillers and talking animals: David Pickup shares his Christmas roundup.
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OpinionHorror faced by refugees unfolds in pacy thriller
David Pickup reviews William Kinread's 'Refuge'.
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NewsAct now on new ‘failure to prevent’ offence, GCs warned
Government publishes guidance on offence created under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act.
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NewsAlleged ATM operator charged in cryptoasset first
Charges are the first relating to unregistered cryptoasset activity under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations 2017.