Key Update on SM&CR Reforms
HFW | Alison Mynott United Kingdom In April and May 2026 we saw developments in the overhaul of the...
What are the Changes to UK Money Laundering Regulations?
Keystone Law | Simon Deane-Johns United Kingdom There are noteworthy changes to the UK’s money laundering regulations (“MLRs”). Unusually,...
Cryptocurrency Fraud in the UK: Risks, Scams, and New Regulatory Measures
Keystone Law | Louise Abbott United Kingdom One of the cryptocurrency sector’s greatest challenges is not necessarily the underlying...
Third-Party Risk and Operational Resilience – Demonstrating Resilience
The age of interconnected vulnerability Modern organisations increasingly rely on intricate networks of cloud providers, payment processors, software vendors,...
Authorised Push Payment Fraud and Social Engineering in Modern Finance
The Fraud That Persuades You to Commit It Yourself Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud has become one of the...
Agentic AI – Algorithmic Trading for All
Reed Smith LLP United Kingdom Firms right across financial services continue to wrestle with the many and varied ways...
At a Glance: Trade Sanctions in United Kingdom
Steptoe LLP | Alexandra Melia and Elliot Letts United Kingdom Trade sanctions General restrictions What restrictions apply in relation to the...
Telling the FCA about Operational Outages: The New Incident Reporting Regime
Ropes & Gray LLP | Eve Ellis, Edward Machin and Lauren Aurelius United Kingdom | USA Background Earlier this year, the Financial...
Recurring Failures in Enforcement Cases
The mystery of repeated mistakes Why do companies continue to fail in precisely the same ways despite decades of...
The Sanctions Compliance Gap
Few areas of business regulation have expanded as rapidly as sanctions compliance. Successive geopolitical crises have prompted the UK...