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LSRA’s Gibraltar ‘Risk Scoring Policy’ introduces a refined risk-based methodology, clearer supervisory guidance, and stronger alignment with AML/CFT/CPF standards to better detect and mitigate FC risks
The policy explains how the LSRA applies a risk‑based approach—combining assessments of technical compliance (quality of policies, procedures, client due diligence, SARs, etc.), effectiveness in preventing financial crime and sanctions evasion, and materiality (the likelihood and impact of failures)—to assign an overall risk score to each firm. These risk scores help the LSRA categorize firms by risk level and determine appropriate supervisory actions, ensuring targeted oversight of legal practices engaged in relevant financial activities…
CoLP’s Report Fraud launch marks the UK’s shift from passive reporting to real-time, intelligence-led action, linking cases, detecting patterns, and tackling large-scale, cyber-enabled, and cross-border fraud
The platform provides a single, streamlined gateway for victims and businesses to report incidents, enables real-time intelligence sharing and triage across law enforcement and industry, and aims to identify serious and complex cases more quickly while ensuring consistent victim support. With fraud now accounting for around half of all crime and costing the UK billions annually, Report Fraud is designed to strengthen collaboration, disrupt criminal networks faster, and better protect the public and the economy…
Companies House delays presenter-related reforms until no earlier than November 2026 to prioritise completing identity verification under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act
The latest update to the transition plan confirms that Companies House will postpone the planned Spring 2026 introduction of presenter measures so it can focus on delivering identity verification for directors and people with significant control and respond to stakeholder feedback. The revised timetable reflects a sequencing decision within the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act reforms to ensure core verification and data-quality changes are embedded before further filing and enforcement measures are introduced…
UK and EU sign a MoU to strengthen oversight of critical third-party providers, establishing coordinated cooperation, information sharing, and joint supervision against cyber-attacks and system outages
It aligns the UK’s Critical Third Party regime with the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), promoting cross-border consistency while reducing regulatory duplication. The agreement aims to enhance financial stability, operational resilience, and market confidence, enabling faster, coordinated responses to risks affecting critical service providers and ensuring more effective supervision across both jurisdictions…
FCA’s new cryptoasset regime, effective 25 Oct 2027, will regulate key crypto activities – firms can learn more at the Authorisations Introductory Webinar on 29 Jan 2026 to stay compliant
This webinar will introduce the upcoming changes to the regulatory regime for cryptoassets under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA). We’ll cover who will be affected by these changes and outline our expectations when assessing applications. The session will highlight the support available to applicants and provide information about our upcoming events and webinars designed to support industry. The webinar will end with an opportunity for Q&A…
Resistant AI’s APP Fraud Whitepaper reveals how criminals exploit real-time payments and money mule networks, urging banks and fintechs to adopt stronger controls, real-time monitoring, and collaboration
It emphasizes the growing scale of APP fraud globally, the financial and reputational risks for banks and fintechs, and the urgent need for stronger controls, enhanced onboarding, real-time monitoring, and data-driven defenses. The paper also addresses emerging reimbursement regimes for victims and calls for industry-wide collaboration and investment in fraud prevention to safeguard customers…
UK Dept for Business and Trade issues draft guidance clarifying how to identify individuals with significant influence or control for Companies House’s PSC register, strengthening corporate transparency
The guidance interprets the statutory criteria in Schedule 1A of the Companies Act 2006 to help companies determine whether an individual or entity exercises significant influence or control — beyond just holding shares or voting rights — and therefore qualifies as a Person with Significant Control. It supports transparency by explaining how rights, powers or actual influence over decisions and company governance trigger PSC reporting and registration obligations with Companies House…
NCA’s UK FIU releases its 2025 SARs Annual Report, highlighting 860,000+ reports filing, stronger asset-denial via DAML, global collaboration, and new digital tools driving AML/CTF effectiveness
The report highlights an exceptional year for the UK Financial Intelligence Unit, with over 860,000 SARs received, the highest-ever value of assets denied through Defence Against Money Laundering requests, and continued global leadership in exploiting SARs to disrupt money laundering and criminal finance. It also details strengthened public-private and international cooperation, extensive reporter engagement, and significant advances in SARs IT reform, including the rollout of the new SARs Portal and Digital Service to improve data quality, analytics, and law-enforcement outcomes…
FCA introduces changes from March 2026, to give banks and payment providers with robust fraud controls greater flexibility to set their own contactless payment limits, replacing the current fixed cap
This move responds to strong consumer demand, with contactless payments accounting for about 95 % of eligible in‑store card transactions in 2024, while maintaining existing fraud protections. Firms will be incentivised to strengthen fraud controls, and consumers may also have the option to set personal limits or disable contactless payments entirely, ensuring both convenience and security in line with evolving technology and inflation pressures…
FCA launches a consultation on its proposed regulatory framework for cryptoassets, aiming to ensure consumer protection and market integrity while supporting innovation – feedback by 12 Feb 2026
The proposals aim to create an open, sustainable, and competitive crypto market that protects consumers while supporting innovation. Key areas under consultation include listing and disclosure standards for cryptoassets, market‑abuse safeguards, operational standards for crypto trading platforms, requirements for intermediaries, rules for staking and DeFi activities, lending and borrowing frameworks, and prudential safeguards for firms. The FCA says the approach will apply similar regulatory principles to crypto as to traditional finance…
HMT releases 2024–25 UK AML/CTF Supervision Report, outlining significant reforms to the UK’s supervisory regime, confirming plans to shift AML oversight of legal, accountancy and TCSP sectors to the FCA
It introduces new transparency through detailed data on inspections, risk ratings. Only 1% of businesses are now deemed “low risk” for AML purposes. The “medium risk” category has grown proportionately, from 53% to 85%. The report details how supervisors including the FCA, HMRC, the Gambling Commission and professional-body supervisors strengthened risk-based supervision through targeted interventions, registration assessments…
NCA’s Operation Venetic uncovers an organised crime group member’s role in a North East England cocaine plot, underscoring a decisive crackdown on serious drug trafficking
The defendant, linked to an organised crime group using the encrypted EncroChat platform, admitted conspiring to supply multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine after NCA analysis of encrypted messages revealed his role in coordinating drug movements and payments. The case forms part of the wider Operation Venetic crackdown, which has dismantled numerous UK criminal networks by exploiting intelligence obtained from EncroChat to uncover large-scale drug supply, violence, and money-laundering operations…