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The rise of the cryptoassets in financial remedies
Connie Atkinson
2 May 2019
FCA Business Plan 2019-20: A reflection of recent enforcement action
The FCA’s annual Business Plan sets out its main areas of focus for 2019/20. As well as being a look to the year ahead, the Business Plan reflects areas of focus of FCA enforcement action over the past year. This blog discusses four such priority areas and examples of recent enforcement action taken by the FCA in relation to: culture and governance; operational resilience; financial crime and money laundering; and the treatment of customers.
1 May 2019
Widening the net: investigating and prosecuting offences overseas
The Domestic Abuse Bill (currently at the Committee Stage) contains a significant set of provisions which has the effect of extending extra-territorial jurisdiction for a number of criminal offences.
30 April 2019
FCA Business Plan 2019-20: priority to make the UK’s financial markets a difficult target for criminals
The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) statement of priorities for the coming year – FCA Business Plan 2019-20 – is set squarely in the global context of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, and the way technology is changing how financial firms do business and consumers engage with their financial decisions.
25 April 2019
Identity Fraud: company directors at double the risk of other individuals
Company directors increasingly have to deal with personal identity theft on top of already substantial compliance requirements to meet their directors’ duties. The risk of identity theft is even greater for those company directors based in London than in other areas of the United Kingdom.
25 April 2019
On the cliff edge: Do we need formal sentencing guidelines for ‘young adults’?
Most of us remember our 18th birthday. Finally you are old enough to do a whole list of activities which were previously prohibited – you can vote, buy alcohol, open your own bank account, gamble or even get that tattoo you always wanted. On top of this, you are now deemed an ‘adult’ in the eyes of the law.
- Controlling and coercive behaviour
- Corporate crime
- Corporate manslaughter and health and safety
- Crime and justice
- Cyber crime
- Extradition and international crime
- Financial crime and financial regulatory enforcement
- Fraud
- Internal investigations
- Legal Updates
- Online Safety Regulation
- Police investigations
- Proceeds of Crime
- The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act
- Unexplained Wealth Orders
- Youth crime and justice