Last Friday the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) was granted a further extension in its attempt to seize UK properties and cash worth...
The Directive on Administrative Cooperation, or DAC6 as it is commonly known, has been causing a number of headaches in the tax world....
As the country begins to emerge from Covid-19 induced lockdown and businesses prepare to reopen, tax remains a hot topic. The Institute...
Yesterday, the Chancellor made various statements on financial regulation in the context of the forthcoming Financial Services Bill,...
The Council of the European Union (the Council) has called for a series of cross-continent actions designed to tackle financial crime....
In April this year, we commented on the first setback by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in their use of unexplained wealth orders...
Along with the planned changes to EMIR trade reporting which came into force on 18 June 2020, entities that previously calculated (or...
On 19 June 2020, amendments to the Arbitrazh Procedure Code come into effect as a result of a new Russian Federal Law No. 171-FZ - known...
Commerzbank has been fined £37,805,400 for anti-money laundering failings by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which yesterday...
Substantial developments towards environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles have been incorporated into all types of financial...
The Construction Leadership Council’s (CLC) Covid-19 Taskforce has released a Roadmap to Recovery outlining its strategy to drive the...
In the wake of a number of high-profile money laundering (ML) scandals in the banking sector, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has...
What has happened?The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has started an investigation into Amigo Loans (Amigo), a London Stock Exchange...
Nine years since the adoption of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (the Directive), the European Commission (the...
The High Level Forum (HLF) on the Capital Markets Union (CMU) has issued its final report on the CMU, including a series of...
Last week, HMRC announced plans to penalise company directors who intentionally breach the rules of the UK Government’s furlough scheme...