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FCA Financial Crime: Guide for firms
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HMRC on cancellation of AML supervision
HMRC publishes list of businesses whose registration for Anti-money laundering supervision has been suspended or cancelled 2021 to 2022. The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations…
ComplyAdvantage publishes AML guide for cryptos
The biggest challenge that crypto firms operating across multiple jurisdictions continue to face is the lack of standardized regulation across countries and differing approaches to how to treat cryptoassets. Governments have adopted divergent approaches…
HMRC Guidance on supervised business register
Only businesses registered for supervision by HMRC will appear. The name a business is registered under may be different from the name you’re familiar with if, e.g., they’re included under the registration of another business…
BVI premier Andrew Fahie replaced after drugs arrest
British Virgin Isles replace premier, Andrew Fahie, following arrest on drug smuggling and ML charges. A no-confidence motion in Andrew Fahie, was backed by the overseas territory’s assembly…
Abacha millions recovered by NCA
NCA recovers almost $23.5m diverted out of Nigeria in the 1990s by the associates and family of former Nigerian Head of State, General Sani Abacha. The funds form part of a larger pool of monies identified by the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ)…
FCA on challenger banks’ financial crime controls
A review by the FCA has found that challenger banks need to improve how they assess financial crime risk, with some failing to adequately check their customers’ income and occupation. In some instances, challenger banks did not have financial crime risk assessments in place…
HMRC webinars on money laundering supervision
HMRC updates recorded webinars on money laundering supervision – information on businesses, Accountancy service providers, Estate agency businesses, High value dealers, Money service businesses…
Home Office on Joint Fraud Taskforce meetings
The Home Office presented an overview of the draft Plan. It has identified key pillars to strengthen leadership and cooperation across the public and private sectors. The UK Intelligence Community are also doing work to prevent frauds from reaching…
NCA releases March edition of SARs in Action
The scale of money laundering impacting the UK is in excess of £100bn a year. This is through abuse of UK financial institutions, UK company structures, markets and property. A significant portion is linked to corrupt elites…
UK ML/TF (High-Risk Countries) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (No. 393)
On the new list, Zimbabwe is no longer classed as a high-risk third country for the purposes of enhanced customer due diligence requirements in regulation 33(3). United Arab Emirates is now classed as a high-risk third country…
HMT approves JMLSG final guidance on trade finance
HMT approves revisions of JMLSG Guidance relating to monitoring customer activity and correspondent relationships including revisions to its guidance relating to trade finance and syndicated lending…
House of Commons briefing on Economic Crime Act 2022
The Act introduces a beneficial ownership register of Overseas Entities owning UK property, and to reform the UK Unexplained Wealth Order and Sanctions regimes. It was introduced in the House of Commons as part…