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 latest Risk & 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 a new FCA guidance consultation on the treatment of PEPs.

This week's edition of Risk and Compliance weekly highlights includes the new requirements for handling data protection complaints under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, which are now in force, the latest sanctions developments, including OFSI’s largest Russia sanctions penalty to date, the government’s response to its AML/CTF supervision reform consultation and FATF’s updates to its AML/CFT grey and black lists. 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 Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes new guidance from the FCDO on the UK’s sanctions regimes, insights into the independent evolution of global sanctions frameworks, OFSI’s new General Licence permitting media activities across sanctions regimes, and a reminder from the ICO urging small businesses to strengthen data protection practices in light of rising cyber threats.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes 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 Risk & 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 and a study on whistleblowing trends among Gen Z.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes 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; OFSI’s new General Licence for Kazakh oil activities; and news analysis on challenging UK sanctions designations in Dana Astra IOOO v FCDO.

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

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: a High Court case about disclosing personal data that identifies a third party, the demise of the EU ePrivacy Regulation, the latest sanctions news and EBA’s priorities for 2024–25 in the area of AML/CFT and the transition to AMLA.

This week's edition of Risk and 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.