Companies House publishes the ‘Register of People with Significant Control’ guidance, detailing how UK companies must identify and record individuals or entities with substantial ownership or control

by | Nov 28, 2025

Under the PSC regime, firms must identify individuals or legal entities that meet defined “significant control” criteria — for example holding over 25% of shares or voting rights, having the power to appoint/remove a majority of directors, or otherwise exercising...

UK SFO’s updated Guidance on Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programmes integrates the new ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence and spotlights 6 scenarios from prosecution decisions to DPA eligibility and monitorships

by | Nov 26, 2025

The updated guidance outlines six scenarios in which SFO may assess a company’s compliance programme — including prosecutions, deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs), monitorships, potential “adequate/ reasonable procedures” defences under anti-fraud and anti-bribery...

FATF publishes its 2025 Asset Recovery Guidance and Best Practices, providing strategies/case studies to strengthen the tracing, freezing, and confiscation of criminal assets while protecting victims rights

by | Nov 4, 2025

It covers the full asset recovery lifecycle from investigation to management and return of assets emphasizing specialized units, inter-agency coordination, access to beneficial ownership data, and robust international cooperation through formal and informal channels....

FINTRAC’s P2P Information Sharing guidance allows reporting entities to share personal data without consent under an approved code of practice to enhance ML/TF and sanctions-evasion detection 

by | Nov 3, 2025

This information sharing is governed by an approved code of practice, submitted to FINTRAC and the Privacy Commissioner, which sets out the types of data that can be shared, secure methods for transmission, and safeguards including access controls, encryption, breach...