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This Overview guides practitioners to the Monthly highlights (archive) for Risk & Compliance, directing readers to analysis, primary sources and tools across recent regulatory and legal developments. The archive provides a consolidated route through cross‑cutting changes that affect firms’ systems and controls, professional obligations and exposure to enforcement.

Coverage typically spans anti‑money laundering and counter‑terrorist financing under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, financial sanctions under the Sanctions and Anti‑Money Laundering Act 2018 and Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation guidance, and reporting to the National Crime Agency. It tracks FCA and PRA rulemaking and supervision (including the Consumer Duty and governance under SYSC), SRA Standards and Regulations, and ICO enforcement and guidance under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Corporate criminal liability and economic crime reform feature prominently, including developments arising from the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, such as the failure to prevent fraud offence and changes to attribution via the senior manager test.

Practitioners should use the archive to monitor enforcement trends, consultation outcomes, notable judgments impacting privilege, confidentiality and reporting, and practical expectations...

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