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Press Round-Up: Regulatory and Professional Discipline – May 2026
Jack Garden
1 October 2015
Corporate liability extension rejected: “failure to prevent” offence confined to the Bribery Act
The government has announced that it will not proceed with the proposed extension of the corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent bribery under s7 of the Bribery Act (“the s7 offence”) to encompass a wider range of economic crime. It has also shelved its review of whether current rules on corporate criminal liability should be widened to make it easier to convict companies who commit wrongdoing.
17 September 2015
The Yates memo: will it make a difference to prosecutions in the UK?
The US Department of Justice (“DoJ”) has issued a memorandum to Federal Prosecutors on Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing (“the Yates memo”). It is widely regarded as the DoJ’s response to criticism that they tend to prosecute companies rather than individuals in contrast to the criticism often levelled at their English counterparts at the SFO.
1 September 2015
Anti-Money Laundering: under review
The Government’s latest step in its Cutting Red Tape review programme focuses on the regime to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. Louise Hodges looks at the review and how preparations for the Fourth Money Laundering Directive are to be set in train.
24 June 2015
Fraudsters on the inside
There has long been a call to make the reporting of fraud a compulsory requirement, akin to the suspicious activity reports regime in money laundering, so that we have a full picture of the amount of fraud that goes on.
27 March 2015
FCA targets financial crime in new business plan
The FCA has published its 2015/16 business plan, a weighty document setting out its strategy and priorities for the next 12 months...
