28 Jun, 2024 Steve Smart on combatting financial crime: talk to each other more! By Duncan Campbell One year after Steve Smart became the FCA's joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight, he has broken his (sort of)...
09 Feb, 2024 FCA encourages boards to question what they do to tackle financial crime By Simon Treacy A key pillar of the FCA’s current three-year strategy is to reduce and prevent financial crime. In an update at the midpoint of executing...
27 Oct, 2023 FCA reviews how payments firms stop money mules ahead of Government action plan By Simon Treacy Snapshot:FCA shares findings from review of payment account providers’ systems and controls against money mule activityFirms are...
15 Mar, 2022 Is the FCA pushing blockchain analytics as an AML measure? By Duncan Campbell Our 2022 enforcement trends report predicts that technology disruptions may create new areas of AML risk and that the FCA will make more...
15 Dec, 2021 Wait, so the FCA's first AML MLRs corporate criminal conviction and record fine is … boring? By Duncan Campbell On first glance the story is full of firsts and of salacious details. Hundreds of millions of pounds laundered over several years...
07 Dec, 2021 Navigating the regulatory waters - ongoing challenges for crypto businesses By Olivia Murphy Those who inhabit the cryptoasset / cryptocurrency space will be familiar with the issue that there is no international consensus on how...
07 Jun, 2021 Eight-month homework extension for crypto businesses By Frances Hodgkins The FCA has only given the green light to five of the hundreds of crypto businesses which have applied for AML registration. So it's no...