This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest financial sanctions news; confirmation that the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will be introduced to Parliament in 2025; and new LeO publication guidance on the types of disputes involving legal fees.

This week's edition of Risk and Compliance weekly highlights includes new ICO guidance on anonymisation, pseudonymisation and research and significant sanctions developments including OFSI’s imposition of a £4.7 million penalty on Citibank London for 970 sanctions breaches, government proposals to double OFSI’s maximum penalty and an NCA alert on the A7 sanctions evasion network. Other updates include a £3.84 million forfeiture following a suspected money laundering and sanctions evasion investigation, a landmark Court of Appeal ruling on tipping-off liability and new NCSC guidance on the targeting of internet-exposed operational technology systems.

This week's edition of Risk and Compliance weekly highlights includes new regulations requiring the ICO to prepare a code of practice on AI and automated decision-making, and a range of sanctions developments covering end-use controls, OTSI licence applications, OFSI’s 2026–29 strategy and new legal services general licences. We also report on the expansion of corporate criminal liability under the Crime and Policing Act 2026.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the ICO’s new strategy to tackle online tracking compliance in the UK, the latest financial sanctions news, analysis of key points from the FCA’s financial crime guide updates and new and expanded fraud risk management guidance and tools available now.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes the EU’s 21st package of sanctions against Russia, the Court of Appeal’s refusal of permission to appeal in R v Osmond, a case involving tipping off and analysis of proposed reforms to the transparency in supply chains regime under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. We also cover concerns raised by the Serious Fraud Office about Güralp Systems’ bribery controls and new NCSC guidance on responding to and recovering from highly disruptive cyber attacks.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes confirmation of the demise of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, the latest sanctions and AML news and a progress report on the first six months of ECCTA 2023 implementation.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes lots of sanctions news including updated FAQs on the recently published Legal Services General Licence and much more, a UK package targeting people-smuggling, HM Treasury’s updated advisory notice on jurisdictions with strategic deficiencies in anti-money laundering, Home Office ransomware supply-chain guidance, Employment Rights Bill consultations and the government’s response on forced labour.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: publication of the NECC’s 2024–2025 Annual Report detailing a rise in fraud-related disruptions and convictions, new guidance from DSIT on the phased implementation of the Data Use and Access Act 2025, the Law Society’s recommendation to increase minimum salaries for trainee solicitors and SQE candidates, updates to OFSI’s general guidance on UK financial sanctions and the Russian Oil Services ban, and the UK government’s ongoing work on AI legislation.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the introduction of the Data (Use and Access) Bill, the latest sanctions news, the publication of the 28th edition of SARs in Action magazine, and the issuing of information notices by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: a new ICO Children’s Code strategy, the latest sanctions news, the annual NCA SARS statistical report, and an analysis on the enforceability of NDAs that stop the reporting of crimes.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes new guidance from the FCDO on Syrian sanctions regimes for businesses and NGOs, updates to OFSI’s Russia-related General Licences and proposals signalling a stronger enforcement approach, a consolidated look-up tool for Russia sanctions licensing considerations, HMRC’s announcement of Economic Crime Levy band restructuring and rate increases, the SFO’s annual whistleblowing disclosures report and the LSB’s consultation on a new diversity policy statement.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest financial sanctions and anti-money laundering updates, a Court of Appeal decision that the NCA misunderstood the UK's anti-money laundering powers, which may lead to higher scrutiny of supply chains, and news from the SRA, including an update to its warning notice on the use of NDAs.