Macfarlanes

At the end of January 2020, the UK courts convicted an individual of failing to comply with the terms of a “Section 2 Notice” issued...

Obscured by the other (perhaps understandably) more high-profile measures in yesterday’s Budget (Wednesday 11 March) was a potentially...

Leading figures at the United Nations have called on member states to ease their sanctions regimes in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis....

The UK Gambling Commission has issued a record £13m fine against Caesars Entertainment (Caesars) for a series of money laundering and...

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has suffered its first major setback in the use of Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs), as its attempt to...

The UK’s top law-enforcement agencies have warned that companies could face increased cybercrime and fraud as a result of the Covid-19...

The headline “HMRC suspends some tax investigations due to pandemic” in this morning’s Financial Times might suggest that HMRC has...

10 years after it received royal assent, a recent freedom of information request has shed some light on the consequences of the Bribery...

The surge in Covid-19 related financial crime necessitates an urgent international response, a leading banking association has said. We...

The EU Commission has published an action plan aimed at ensuring the EU puts on a more unified front in the fight against money...

On 21 May 2020, the International Corporate Governance Network published updated Guidance on Anti-Corruption Practices (the Guidance)....

To obtain a freezing injunction, one of the factors an applicant must prove is that there is a real risk that the respondent will...

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the audit watchdog, has announced that it is dropping its investigation into several Tesco...

In the wake of a number of high-profile money laundering (ML) scandals in the banking sector, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has...

The Council of the European Union (the Council) has called for a series of cross-continent actions designed to tackle financial crime....

The UK is set to go ahead with a £100m investment in improving anti-money laundering systems, funded by a “levy” on financial...