This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes OFSI’s penalty on Colorcon for Russia sanctions breaches, OFSI’s new and updated General Licences, and an update to the OFSI UK Financial Sanctions FAQs. We also cover EU pressure on member states to implement new AML ruless, the NCA and Law Society campaign targeting payment diversion fraud, and a High Court ruling restricting unqualified employees from conducting litigation.

This week's edition of Risk and Compliance weekly highlights includes the latest UKFIU guidance on the use of AI to bypass customer due diligence checks, including deepfakes and synthetic identities, and an SRA warning on the risks of solicitors using AI-generated false case citations or compromising client confidentiality through public AI tools. We also highlight updated Risk & Compliance content on counter-proliferation financing, supply chain risks and organisation-wide money laundering risk assessments.

This week's edition of Risk and Compliance weekly highlights includes: the new Risk & Compliance forecast, the latest on data protection, financial sanctions and SARS as well as other Risk & Compliance news.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: our new Risk & Compliance forecast, an analysis on the uncertainty of the EU AI Act, the latest sanctions news, and the Question of the week which considers potential personal liability a nominated officer (MLRO) and Money Laundering Compliance Officer (MLCO) could incur in the roles.

This week's edition of Risk and Compliance weekly highlights includes: our new Risk & Compliance forecast, the timeline for the introduction of the UK data reform bill, the latest sanctions news, publication of the March 2025 SARs in Action Reporter Booklet and introduction of the Crime and Policing Bill.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights: includes the latest sanctions news; a JMLSG consultation on proposed revisions to Part I of its guidance; an FCA warning that companies are ignoring financial crime risks; and a billionaire who used a spy to extract privileged information from a solicitor.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest Risk & Compliance forecast, analysis of the key changes to data protection and ePrivacy law in the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and HMRC’s first corporate charge under tax evasion laws, signalling a tougher stance on financial crime.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest Risk & Compliance forecast, new guidance from the ICO concerning data protection fining, details of the Government Counter Fraud Functional Strategy 2024–2027 and an analysis of an update to the proposed EU Corporate Sustainability Due-Diligence Directive.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes an ICO warning to businesses to prepare for incoming data complaints requirements under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, new Russia sanctions regulations, alongside fresh DBT general trade licences for Russian oil products and LNG activities and enforcement developments including OFSI’s monetary penalty against Deutsche Bank for sanctions breaches.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest financial sanctions updates, an updated list of businesses not compliant with money laundering regulations from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), initiation of a consultation for legal regulators to combat economic crime by the Legal Services Board (LSB) and final versions of a suite of new guidance to support in-house solicitors from the SRA.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest Risk & Compliance forecast as at 20 August 2024, an ICO consultation on data protection compliance across the generative AI supply chain, the latest sanctions news and analyses of the Court of Appeal’s recent judgment in World Uyghur Congress v NCA.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest Risk & Compliance forecast, the most recent sanctions updates, details of a new GDPR certification scheme for the legal sector, coverage of Meta’s appeal against a €1.2bn GDPR fine in Ireland and an analysis of the expected changes that could be brought about by the Criminal Justice Bill.