20 Jul, 2021 EU publishes legislative package to overhaul anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing legislation By Marcel Michaelis Daniel Travers Marius Raetz Janina Heinz Victor Garcia Lopez Eugene McQuaid +3 more... Show less Combating money laundering has long been high on the EU’s legislative agenda. In our May 2020 blogpost, we outlined the European...
30 Sep, 2020 The intensity of regulatory scrutiny of AML and crypto-assets in the UK By Christopher Robinson Cyrus Pocha Laura Feldman As envisaged in its 2019/20 Business Plan, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on proposals to extend its financial crime...
21 Aug, 2020 Extending criminal liability for money laundering: update on Germany’s new draft law implementing the latest EU AML directive By Marcel Michaelis Daniel Travers In January, a draft bill reforming the crime of money laundering in Germany (section 261 of the German Criminal Code (StGB)) was leaked....
01 Jun, 2020 COVID-19: beware of heightened AML risks By Helena Blake The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recently published a report (PDF) on COVID-19-related money laundering and terrorist financing...
08 May, 2020 The European Commission’s action plan on AML By Marcel Michaelis Daniel Travers The pace is being kept up to combat money laundering and terrorist financing globally, especially in the EU. Recent high-profile...
10 Jan, 2020 Five key features of the UK money laundering regulations 2019 By Oliver Hamill Neil Donovan Today (10 January 2020), the majority of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019 ('the Regulations')...