This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest Practice Compliance forecast as at 23 July 2024, the latest sanctions guidance updates and new sanctions FAQs, the latest issue of SARs in Action magazine and an update on the PII market.

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 new guidance from the FCDO on UK sanctions regimes, analysis of the global divergence between US, UK and EU sanctions, and OFSI's new General Licence permitting media activities across sanctions regimes. We also cover the ICO's reminder to small businesses to strengthen data protection in the face of rising cyber-attacks, recent ASA rulings on litigation advertising, a court decision confirming that unqualified law firm staff cannot conduct litigation, and the SRA's discussion paper on high-volume consumer claims reform.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes the Legal Ombudsman’s latest public interest decisions, the FCA Chief Executive’s call for fewer new rules, developments in the UK’s Russia sanctions framework including OFSI’s new and amended general licences and the FCDO’s largest sanctions package since early 2022. We also highlight OFSI’s new compliance guidance following a recent penalty, the EDPB’s global statement on AI‑generated imagery and privacy and two key data protection updates: the ICO’s Court of Appeal win in the DSG Retail case and the EDPB’s report on difficulties organisations face in implementing the GDPR right to erasure.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: updates on the phased rollout of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, new ICO guidance and DSIT commentary on the Act’s implications, FATF’s revised AML/CTF guidance and mutual evaluation framework, the latest UK sanctions regulations, SRA research on small firm tech adoption and a study on whistleblowing trends among Gen Z.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes the Legal Ombudsman’s call for input on its draft Model Complaints Resolution Procedure; the ICO’s guidance on the new lawful basis of recognised legitimate interest and other updated ICO guidance; the FCDO’s guidance on sanctions exceptions and licences; and news analysis on challenging UK sanctions designations in Dana Astra IOOO v FCDO.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the new Practice Compliance forecast, the OPBAS report on overview of the Professional Body Supervisors Anti-Money Laundering supervision, and a news analysis on AI risks in corporate compliance.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes TikTok’s report of a possible sanctions breach to UK and Irish regulators and NCSC interim practical advice on managing cyber risks in agentic AI systems.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, updates to the global AML/CFT monitoring lists by the FATF and analysis on DeepSeek AI and the ICO’s scrutiny of DeepSeek over data concerns.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: a High Court case about case about disclosing personal data that identifies a third party, the latest sanctions news, the demise of the EU ePrivacy Regulation and a warning from the SRA about client account shortages.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, including a substantial fine for breaches of the Russia sanctions regime and publication of OFSI’s latest annual review, analysis of the enforcement prospects for the new corporate offence of failure to prevent fraud, which comes into effect on 1 September 2025 and the publication of substantially amended statutory guidance on modern slavery in supply chains.

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes the latest Practice Compliance forecast, key announcements from the Budget 2025 impacting criminal justice and enforcement frameworks, UKFIU’s new SAR portal guidance introducing registration and authentication requirements, the NCA’s continued crackdown on Russian-linked money laundering networks, refreshed SFO guidance on corporate compliance programmes, commencement of key provisions of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, and developments following the Mazur ruling, including CILEX’s appeal and litigation rights applications.