This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: news of forthcoming guidance on UK data protection fines, the latest sanctions news, analysis of the government’s response to the Law Commission’s report on reform of the SARs regime and an update on the proposed EU corporate sustainability due-diligence law.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes the ICO’s final guidance on storage and access technologies, which clarifies rules on cookies and tracking, the EU adopting an Anti-Corruption Directive and the latest UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the adoption of a report on the first review of EU-US Data Privacy Framework by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), a response by the Information Commissioner to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, the latest financial sanctions, and confirmation by the Home Office that the ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence is scheduled to take effect on 1 September 2025.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest updates to the financial sanctions regime, the latest SARs Reporter Booklet, news analyses on the Court of Appeal's judgment in World Uyghur Congress v NCA and the new EU AI Act.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: details of an ICO warning to organisations on advertising cookie banners, the latest sanctions updates, a news analysis on the US Foreign Extortion Prevention Act and its significance to UK lawyers and a report by Spotlight on Corruption on regulatory breaches by executives.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes the European Commission’s renewal of the UK’s data‑transfer adequacy decisions, key sanctions developments including OFSI’s updated Arbitration Costs FAQs and amendments to the Central African Republic sanctions regime, and FATF’s assessment of emerging AI‑related AML/CFT risks. We also cover Spotlight on Corruption’s call for strengthened FCA‑led AML supervision, the NCA’s new guidance on indicators of foreign bribery, and the Legal Services Board’s consultation on its 2026/27 business plan.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: OFSI’s Legal Services Threat Assessment, the OFSI annual review 2024, and the updated UK strategic export control list. In addition, notable financial crime developments are highlighted by the SFO’s £3m bribery investigation.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes amendments to Russian oil sanctions licences covering Sakhalin-2, an extended licence for winding down maritime insurance contracts, and new licences for transporting Russian LNG to Japan and South Korea. We also cover analysis of the government’s anti-money laundering and asset recovery strategy, updated HMRC guidance on Economic Crime Levy bands, and updated CMA whistleblowing guidance.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes the ICO's updated UK GDPR lawful basis guidance introducing a seventh lawful basis termed 'recognised legitimate interest', a CJEU ruling limiting abusive GDPR access requests in Brillen Rottler, updated government guidance on employer action plans to reduce the gender pay gap and provide menopause support and the HSE's new consultation on The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 which proposes several legislative changes.

This week's edition of Risk &Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest sanctions news, the corporate crime cases to watch in 2025 and other Risk & Compliance updates.

This week's edition of Risk and Compliance weekly highlights includes new ICO guidance on using personal information to protect businesses from crime, including the use of CCTV and facial recognition technology, and analysis of fresh pressure on EU-US data transfers following a US Supreme Court ruling. We also cover sanctions developments including amendments to an OFSI General Licence on maritime mutual re-insurance wind down, joint EDPB and AMLA plans for guidance on AML information sharing and data protection, and the launch of the Cyber Resilience Pledge to strengthen organisations' cyber defences.

This week's edition of Risk & Compliance weekly highlights includes: an analysis of the ICO’s new data protection fining guidance, the latest financial sanctions and economic crime news, and new Europol research concerning laundered money covered by the Law Society.