Hello, and welcome to this week in financial crime. I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been an interesting week this week, with the usual mix of sanctions, fraud, money laundering, and a bit of market abuse.

In this special edition of the Financial Crime Weekly we take a quick spin around the Register of Overseas Entities which goes live today, Monday 1st August 2022. 

Hello, and welcome to this week in financial crime. I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been an interesting week this week, with a good range of financial crime points to get your head around. We’ll look at…..

●  A decent range of sanctions news, with some of the most compelling research to date of the impact on the Russian economy.

●      More updates on the imminent implementation of the Register of Overseas Entities.

●      A few fraud stories.

●      Some market abuse news which is a bit of a blast from the past.

●      And, some news on data-sharing.

Hello, and welcome to this week in financial crime. I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a relatively quiet week this week, but what there is has a more than limited range of interesting points, so let’s get cracking. We’ll look at…..

●      A bit of sanctions news, including more sanctions from the EU.

●      A bit on money laundering, particularly some work from the FATF.

●      An interesting couple of fraud stories.

●      And, we end with a report on a Supreme Court case on restraint orders.

Hello, and welcome to this special edition of the Financial Crime Weekly podcast where we take a look at the recently published Impact Assessment of the Money Laundering Regulations and the response of the Regulatory Policy Committee to that Impact Assessment.

Hello, and welcome to this week in financial crime. I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been another week of interesting, and there’s quite a bit to wade through, so let’s get cracking. We’ll look at…..

●     A bit of sanctions news, including more sanctions from the EU.

●      A load on money laundering, both in the UK and beyond.

●      An interesting couple of pieces on fraud and bribery.

●      And, we end with a bit on cyber and ransomware.

Hello, and welcome to this week in financial crime. I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a quiet one this week, so shouldn’t be detained unduly. We’ll look at…..

●      Some mopping up sanctions news.

●      A few money laundering updates, with news on the Singaporean Presidency of the Financial Action Task Force.

●    And a fraud case which highlights everything we were talking about in the FCWP Special Edition on Fraud.

This week, the government has published two post-implementation reviews of two sets of regulations: the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (‘the Money Laundering Regulations’) and the Oversight of Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Supervision Regulations 2017 (‘the OPBAS Regulations’), together with an additional free-standing review of the Money Laundering Regulations 2017. This special edition considers these documents.

Hello, and welcome to this week in financial crime. I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been another busy one this week, so best to crack on with our round-up of all things financial crime. We’ll look at…..

●      Some sanctions news this week, with more individuals sanctioned and news of the success of a co-ordinated approach

●      An update from Companies House on the secondary legislation supporting the establishment of the Register of Overseas Entities

●      A look at the UK Finance Fraud Report for 2022

●      And news of a Special Edition of the podcast

Hello, and welcome to this week in financial crime. I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been another busy one this week, so best to crack on with our round-up of all things financial crime. We’ll look at…..

● Some sanctions news this week, though the news there is becoming a real trickle now

● Quite a lot of money laundering news this week

● And a bit on regulatory enforcement for financial crime deficiencies