This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes updates to the ICO's guidance on transfer risk assessments and international data transfers, new EU‑level proposals to strengthen cybersecurity across essential sectors, OFSI’s latest amendments to sanctions licensing and guidance in light of the revised oil price cap and key insights into UK whistleblowing developments.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: our latest Risk & Compliance forecast, key financial sanctions updates and analysis of the SRA's interim policy statement on its financial penalty regime.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes the extension of global human rights and international humanitarian law sanctions to 12 British overseas territories, the UKFIU’s annual report on suspicious activity reports, and calls for stronger anti-money laundering supervision and enforcement. We also cover the 2026 economic crime system priorities for the regulated sector, guidance on identifying and reporting labour exploitation, and the Law Society’s practice note on using AI in legal practice.

This week's edition of Risk and Compliance weekly highlights includes analysis of changes to UK money laundering due diligence rules. We also cover anti-corruption developments, including the EU’s new directive harmonising corruption offences and the SFO’s 2026–27 Business Plan. In addition, we report on growing AI-driven cyber threats highlighted by government, new cyber resilience initiatives for businesses, and the launch of refreshed horizon scanning and tracking tools for compliance professionals.

This week's edition of Risk and Compliance weekly highlights includes: a new Risk & Compliance forecast, the latest on data protection, compliance trends in 2025 and key points from the trade sanctions office.

This week's edition of Risk and Compliance weekly highlights includes a call for evidence on the UK’s international data transfer regime, updated ICO guidance on subject access requests, and important sanctions guidance on luxury goods, ordinary residence and basic needs licensing. We also cover growing criminal exploitation of virtual assets and concerns about AI-related gaps in the Cyber Resilience and Security Bill. Other updates include a call for evidence on the Immigration and Asylum Bill and changes to the Employment Rights Act 2025 implementation timetable.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: our new Risk & Compliance forecast, the latest sanctions news, new guidance on requesting a defence from the NCA under POCA and TACT, an analysis on securing bribery convictions, and a DSIT consultation on two new cybersecurity codes of practice.

This week's edition of Risk and Compliance weekly highlights includes our latest Risk & Compliance forecast, EDPB’s opinions on extending the UK’s data adequacy decisions, new OFSI general licences, the UN’s reimposed Iran sanctions, and HM Treasury’s confirmation of the FCA as the new Single Professional Services Supervisor.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: all the latest news on sanctions, including the world’s first sanctions regime targeting irregular migration gangs, publication of the long-awaited fourth national money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment, publication of the government’s response to its 2024 consultation on the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, an update on the government’s ransomware consultation, and the latest whistleblowing developments.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, the initiation of a consultation on collective redundancy and fire and rehire practices, the publication of a timeline for the commencement of key provisions of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023) by Companies House, the submission of the Whistleblowing Protections Bill and the publication of guidance by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on effective communications in cyber security incident.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes new EDPB guidance on GDPR fines and the interaction between the Digital Services Act and GDPR, alongside forthcoming changes to the ICO’s governance structure. We also cover High Court guidance on the application of sanctions rules to the assignment of contractual rights by a designated person, analysis of OTSI’s 2025–26 Annual Review, and a significant ruling that the SRA cannot use its statutory powers to require production of material protected by unwaived legal professional privilege. In addition, we highlight new content on mapping senior manager criminal exposure.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: a new Opinion on ‘consent or pay’ models used by large online platforms by the EDPB, the latest financial sanctions and economic crime news and the latest on the adoption of the EU corporate sustainability due diligence directive.