This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes OTSI’s expanded licensing role for sanctioned goods exports and OFSI's new strategy for 2026–29, alongside new and extended general licences. We also include an EDPB consultation on a new DPIA template aimed at improving GDPR compliance consistency, and the OLC’s 2026–27 business plan highlighting rising complaint volumes and reform priorities for the Legal Ombudsman.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest financial sanctions, the opening of a consultation on new legislative proposals to tackle cybercrime and response to House of Lords Committee Report on Modern Slavery Act 2015 by the Home Office, and an analysis on how forced labour imports raise criminal risks for UK retailers.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes HMRC's latest sanctions enforcement activity and increased sanctions compliance expectations for the crypto sector. We also cover the government's response to AML/CTF supervision reform, the ICO's consultation on its new corporate strategy, ongoing governance scrutiny of the UK's privacy regulator, the UK government's call for evidence on data regulation in the age of AI and data-intensive technologies, new EDPB guidance on anonymisation and web scraping for generative AI and blockchain technologies and proposed SRA reforms for third-party litigation funding in consumer claims.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, an update on forthcoming guidance on the new offence of failure to prevent fraud, an ICO report on the prevalence of data breaches and steps to prevent them, a DSIT report on its AI cyber security survey, and the publication of joint guidance on considering payment in ransomware incidents.

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 new Practice Compliance forecast, the latest sanctions news, key takeaways from the ICO’s final anonymisation guidance, revised SRA guidance on race equality in law firms and analysis of the UK’s approach to modern slavery.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest Practice Compliance forecast, OFSI’s updated sanctions guidance and FAQs, final amendments to AML guidance from JMLSG, a significant decision on CFA enforceability, and analysis on cybersecurity risks in supply chains.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the new Practice Compliance forecast, the latest sanctions news, including the launch of the new Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI), the publication of the Employment Rights Bill, a speech by the Master of the Roll on AI and GDPR and analysis of the UK’s new failure to prevent fraud offence.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes updated OFSI guidance on crediting interest on frozen assets and travel expenses in financial sanctions licence applications. We also cover the government’s anti-money laundering and asset recovery strategy 2026–29, including investment in enforcement, intelligence sharing and asset recovery and the commencement of provisions under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 establishing the new Information Commission.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: our new Practice Compliance forecast, the latest financial sanctions news, extension of the LSB’s review of the SRA’s regulatory actions and details of an ICO consultation on the accuracy of generative AI models.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes our new compliance forecast, OFSI licence amendments and OTSI guidance on sanctions breach reporting. We also cover the UK’s evolving Russia sanctions regime, the Home Office’s counter‑terrorism powers report and the FCA’s £44m fine against Nationwide for anti‑financial crime failings. Finally, the SRA published a clutch of Christmas consultations and thematic reviews—on protection of client money, law firm growth strategies and compliance officer duties.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest Practice Compliance forecast, analysis of the SRA’s recent £500k fine for AML failures, an ICO consultation on generative AI, the European Commission’s conclusions of its adequacy decisions review, and new guidance from the NCSC for SMEs on using online services safely.