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Prompted by the crisis in Ukraine, the UK Government has announced that it will bring forward the Economic Crime Bill. It has also...
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A helpful reminder of the need to be careful when amending the dispute resolution provisions of a long-term contract (Surrey County...
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A House of Commons briefing paper, published on 22 February 2022, has criticised the use of Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs). The paper...
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On 10 February 2022 HMT published its formal response to its review of the UK funds regime and set out a series of actions it is planning...
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The crisis at the Russia/Ukraine border continues to provoke reverberations for the global financial sanctions framework, with threats...
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David Gauke and Francis Bond discuss the potential financial sanctions options available to the UK Government in responding to the...
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The Home Office has just announced that it has closed the Investor visa category to new applicants with immediate effect.Current Investor...
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Amazon's UK groceries activities will now be monitored by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which on 9 February 2022...
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced its first ever seizure of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) as part of a £1.4m VAT fraud...
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On Thursday 10 February, the House of Commons Library published a briefing paper on economic crime in the UK, which summarises recent...
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Following a statement by Mairead McGuinness, European commissioner for financial services, towards the end of last year, the European...
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The Council of the Advertising Standards Authority (the ASA Council) has clamped down on Crypto.com (a payment and cryptocurrency trading...
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We recently commented on a fortnight of fast-paced developments in the economic crime space. As we observed, it appears that (despite...
Towards the end of last year, it was reported that HMRC had begun sending “nudge letters” to cryptocurrency investors. Nudge letter...
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The UK and many other countries allow their citizens to hold dual/multiple nationalities. I am Canadian (a country that permits its...
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Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has issued a call for a new register of foreign-owned properties in the UK, citing the fact that the...