On 15 October 2025, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) published, alongside guidance on who is subject to financial...
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Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU has drastically tightened sanctions against Russia. Preventing the circumvention...
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The UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has published a financial services sector threat assessment, to help UK...
On 3 February 2025, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Dear CEO letter to payments firms that are supervised by the...
As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, we have crowdsourced predictions for the year ahead from the Freshfields global fintech team....
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The drumbeat of calls for the UK to introduce a programme of whistleblower incentivisation continues to grow louder. In our view, a...
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On 6 November 2024, the UK Government published final guidance on what constitute reasonable prevention procedures (the “Guidance”), on...
On both sides of the Atlantic, law enforcement agencies are showing increasing interest in using incentivisation as a means to detect...
After a few months of silence (the FCA’s promise to listen to the “extensive feedback” it had received at the consultation’s close in...
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Few areas of regulatory law are evolving as rapidly as European money laundering law. Over the past few years these requirements have...
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Tackling corporate fraud is an increasingly high priority for legislators and enforcement agencies globally. We describe the landscape...
A recent Court of Appeal decision [1] on the UK Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) has provoked significant interest given its focus on the...