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Make UK FCA abandon its e-mail deletion plan, government and lawmakers urged
The UK’s financial services minister Emma Reynolds, as well as key lawmakers, have been urged to make the Financial Conduct Authority abandon its upcoming plan to s... (more story)
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UK tax authorities to reward corporate whistleblowers
Individuals who blow the whistle on large companies evading tax could be set for significant windfalls, UK lawmaker James Murray has said. The government proposals ... (more story)
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UK’s FCA could have handled Safe Hands Plans complaint better, report says
Allegations of wrongdoing involving prepaid funeral company Safe Hands Plans could have been handled better by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, a report said t... (more story)
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Former trader Tom Hayes, convicted of rigging the benchmark Libor interest rate a decade ago, sees his long fight to clear his name arrive at the UK’s highest court tomorrow. The former UBS and Citibank trader... (more story)
The removal of Tornado Cash from the US sanctions list follows a US appellate court decision last year that had limited the reach of the measures targeting the cryptocurrency-transaction anonymizing service. T... (more story)
A former executive of Cognizant Technology Solutions facing corruption charges has hired new lawyers, who asked for a “reasonable” adjournment of his trial scheduled to begin early next month. The executive's ... (more story)
UK fraud investigators are to team up with Swiss and French counterparts to create an anti-bribery taskforce in the wake of US moves under President Donald Trump to dampen foreign bribery enforcement. The Seri... (more story)
UK prosecutors such as the Serious Fraud Office should be allowed greater use of advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, in a bid to reduce the huge disclosure burdens they face in criminal cas... (more story)
The UK’s audit watchdog is reviewing its enforcement processes and will consult on amendments that could span from the initial case assessment through to the publication of outcomes. The Financial Reporting Co... (more story)
Two men convicted of running a fraudulent investment scheme promoting teak plantations in Brazil today lost their bids to take appeals for both their sentences and convictions to the UK’s top court. Judges at ... (more story)
The Russian unit of UK law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has been fined 465,000 pounds by the UK government for breaches of sanctions rules imposed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The law firm’s London ... (more story)
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News that Europe’s top foreign-bribery prosecutors will band together and collaborate more closely will inevitably be seen as a response to a US retreat from enforcement, even though they say it has been years... (more story)
The Canadian government has moved up its timeline for changes to its anti-money laundering regulatory regime, bringing them into force on April 1 – six months earlier than originally proposed. Companies subjec... (more story)
US cybersecurity defenders in the private sector remain on alert for Russian threats even as the federal workforce has been hit with staff reductions and reports indicate national agencies may be softening on the issue.
Entain this week took a step toward banishing the memory of a blockbuster settlement with UK authorities over a bribery scandal at a Turkish online gaming business it used to own. But the gambling operator — w... (more story)
The day before jury selection was scheduled to begin in the corruption trial of two Cognizant Technology Solutions executives charged with authorizing bribes to Indian officials, New Jersey’s top federal prose... (more story)
With a Sunday night bombshell, the Trump administration announced it's abandoning enforcement of an anti-money laundering law years in the making. The Corporate Transparency Act was hailed by anti-corruption c... (more story)
John Glen, the UK's former City Minister, has come to the defense of regulators and businesses, arguing that the government and consumers need to bear more responsibility. The government should articulate how ... (more story)
The UK financial services watchdog faces having to make a decision shortly on its unpopular “name and shame” initiative, with a consultation on amendments ending next week. While changes to the Financial Condu... (more story)