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Practice Compliance weekly highlights—9 June 2022

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Published on: 09 June 2022

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Table of contents

Financial sanctions
OFSI publishes guidance on penalties for breaches of financial sanctions
US Government cleared to seize Russian oligarch’s jets worth US$400m
US Treasury’s OFAC severs more networks providing support to Russia’s elites
Ukraine conflict—Council of the EU adopts sixth sanctions package against Russia
Data protection
Privacy claim requires ‘positive act’ by the defendant to demonstrate misuse of private information (Smith v TalkTalk Telecom Group plc)
AML and counter-terrorist financing
SRA AML data collection exercise
Cybercrime

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Article summary

This week’s edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes new guidance from OFSI on penalties for breaches of financial sanctions; an SRA announcement on AML requirements; and two SRA Risk Outlook publications on information and cybercrime and innovation in a competitive landscape.

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