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Given the opportunities for money laundering, fraud and other financial crime that government responses to the pandemic presented, it is perhaps no surprise that AML regulations have tightened, and en...
Author(s): Christopher Robinson, Daniel Travers, Silvia Van Dyck, Olivia Radin, Ali Sallaway, Laura Feldman
The FCA’s first criminal prosecution of a bank, which was also its first prosecution for breaches of the UK’s Money Laundering Regulations, was a landmark in the enforcement activity of 2021. Key them...
Author(s): Sharon Grennan
The growing popularity of crypto-assets has led to their increasing use in money-laundering schemes. A Europol study cited in the European Commission’s impact assessment (PDF) accompanying the EU’s pr...
Author(s): Alexander Glos, Marius Raetz, Corinna Wiedenmann, Daniel Klingenbrunn
Hong Kong regulatory enforcement trends – annual review and look ahead
Record fines, but fewer actions: Hong Kong regulatory enforcement in 2020
UK Financial services enforcement round up and looking ahead
UK enforcement round up and looking ahead
FS market conduct #3: a look at market manipulation enforcement in the US, Hong Kong and Germany
FS market conduct #2: UK FCA enforcement themes and what's coming up
Global investigations #5: managing conduct risk – the evolving approach
Global investigations #4: protecting the whistleblowers
