This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions updates, the introduction of a new subtopic on managing corporate criminal liability risks, coverage of SRA guidance on firm-wide sanctions risk assessments, a report on the impact of AI on cyber threat and a news analysis concerning AML reform brought about by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the most recent sanctions updates, details of the new EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority, an update to the non-cooperative tax jurisdiction list and an analysis of the impact of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 for data protection lawyers.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the TMT weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from across the technology, media and telecoms sectors. These highlights focus on key topics including new technologies, software, cloud computing, internet, outsourcing, music, film & television, publishing, defamation and telecoms.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes the latest sanctions developments, including OFSI’s largest Russia sanctions penalty to date, the government’s response to its AML/CTF supervision reform consultation, FATF’s updates to its AML/CFT grey and black lists, the new requirements for handling data protection complaints under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, which are now in force, an SRA consultation on new notification requirements for law firms and the Five Eyes agencies’ warning on AI-driven cyber risks. We also examine where the new corporate criminal liability regime under the Crime and Policing Act 2026 is likely to have its greatest enforcement impact and the compliance and governance changes organisations should make.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes a call for evidence on the Immigration and Asylum Bill, updated sanctions licensing and enforcement guidance, FATF findings on decentralised finance and virtual asset risks, and international bribery enforcement developments. We also cover the UK’s international data transfer regime, updated ICO subject access request guidance, changes to the Employment Rights Act 2025 implementation timetable and concerns about AI-related gaps in the Cyber Resilience and Security Bill.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the ICO’s response to Meta’s announcement on utilising user data for AI training, the latest sanctions news and a new edition of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit’s SARs in Action publication focussed on professional enablers.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the TMT weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from across the technology, media and telecoms sectors. These highlights focus on key topics including new technologies, software, cloud computing, internet, outsourcing, music, film & television, publishing, defamation and telecoms.

This week's edition of Energy weekly highlights includes: news analysis on Ofgem's approval of the TMO4+ grid connection reforms package, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)'s publication of an open letter announcing funding through GB Energy for domestic offshore wind supply chains, along with an amendment to the GB Energy Bill adding measures against slavery and human trafficking, and DESNZ's call for evidence on civil and defence nuclear regulatory framework. In addition this week, DESNZ launched a consultation on revenue support regulations for greenhouse gas removals and power bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) business models, DESNZ's publication of its response to the Smart Secure Electricity Systems Programme consultation, Ofgem's publication of its consultation decision on revised special conditions for transmission licences and DESNZ's consultation launch on revised National Policy Statements for energy infrastructure.

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. The implementation period put in place to enable the UK to transition away from the EU’s laws and institutions ended at 11 pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020. At this point in time (referred to in this Practice Note as ‘IP completion day’) there was an immediate and significant change in the UK’s legal regime. This Practice Note explains the implications of that change in relation to e-commerce. How does Brexit impact E-commerce? Although EU legislation on e-commerce is, for the most part, retained in the UK as retained EU law, the impact of Brexit is significant for UK businesses operating in the EU. To the extent that EU law diverges from the position adopted in the UK or vice versa or there is further deregulation in the future, the compliance burden for UK organisations engaging in cross-border e-commerce will increase. E-commerce covers a broad range of legislation including that which relates to the operation of the technology and functionality

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes the LSB’s review of regulatory guidance following the Mazur ruling, the SRA’s response to its consultation on first-tier complaints handling, publication of OFSI’s annual frozen assets review, an analysis of draft AML reforms reshaping the UK’s anti-money laundering framework, and the UK government’s call on major firms to bolster cyber resilience.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, a new edition of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit’s SARs in Action publication focussed on professional enablers, the ICO’s response to Meta’s announcement on using user data for AI training and a CIPD report on how employers are tackling bullying and harassment at work.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the ICO’s consultation on draft updated guidance on encryption, publication of the Software Security Code of Practice, legislation to strengthen whistleblowing implementation and enforcement and the latest sanctions news.