This portal provides busy practitioners with short commentaries on significant developments in the field of bribery and corruption, fraud, money laundering and proceeds of crime. The commentaries are franked by their topicality and practical insight, with an emphasis on implications not always visible at first glance.
- Restoring confidence in the pre-pack?Rachel Clark considers whether draft new regulations requiring scrutiny of pre-pack sales to connected parties...Continue Reading
- Wrongful trading — a civil contravention with a money laundering implication?Speed read: The wrongful trading suspension ended on 30 September 2020 and it is important...Continue Reading
- Cryptoasset service providers should plan, not panicSpeed read: The recent Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ban on crypto-derivatives trading to retail consumers...Continue Reading
- The impact of a person’s OFAC designation in the UKSpeed read: Anita Clifford considers the scope for enforcement of OFAC designation against UK persons.Continue Reading
- Tax reporting under DAC 6 – will it make a difference?Speed read: As the UK reporting deadlines fast approach, Rachel Clark examines the new obligations...Continue Reading
- To train, and to train well – that is the questionSpeed read: Training is a requirement under the UK Money Laundering Regulations but the wording...Continue Reading
- Furlough Fraud and Professional AdvisersSpeed read: Fraud on employee support schemes is a focus for enforcement authorities in the...Continue Reading
- One-size does not fit all: regulatory cases and criminal benefitSpeed read: The recent case of R v Roth [2020] EWCA Crim 967 confirmed that...Continue Reading
- Developments in POCA disclosure ordersSpeed read: Anita Clifford considers the recent case of Faerman v SFO [2020] EWHC 1849...Continue Reading
- New law on shaky ground: the test for dishonesty in criminal lawSpeed read: The Court of Appeal affirming the Ivey test as the new standard for...Continue Reading
- Is Phoenixism about to rise from the ashes?Speed read: Phoenixism (liquidating a company only for the same business to re-emerge from the...Continue Reading
- False accounting and COVID-19Speed read: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought difficulty and trying times to all areas of...Continue Reading
- A fiery debate: incineration taxSpeed read: Taxes have been used to shape behaviour for centuries. Now, environmental taxes are...Continue Reading
- Duty to report fraud: an unnecessary duplication?Speed read: The proposal to impose a mandatory duty to report fraud on financial institutions...Continue Reading
- Protecting against tax and benefit fraud during COVID-19Speedread: COVID-19 is a tremendous challenge to the world economy. The UK government has announced...Continue Reading
- Covid-19 & consequences for anti-money launderingSpeedread: Anita Clifford considers the implications for anti-money laundering and Customer Due Diligence following the...Continue Reading
- Where do we go from here? Cryptoassets and external application of POCA 2002Speedread: This briefing considers the international perspective on cryptoassets and external application of Proceeds of...Continue Reading
- The vulnerability of management consultants to an offence of money launderingSpeedread: Recent events suggest that management consultants are vulnerable to interacting with criminal property, thereby...Continue Reading
- Cryptoassets’ relationship with the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002Speedread: The recent High Court decision in AA v Persons Unknown [2019] EWHC 3556 (Comm)...Continue Reading
- A Spring Clean for the Waste Industry?Speedread: On 16 January 2020, the government launched a taskforce to bring environmental regulators, HMRC...Continue Reading
