Tag: Solicitors Regulation Authority

Anti-money laundering compliance at law firms can easily become a routine of completed forms. The client is identified, sanctions and PEP screening is done...

Regulated firms are being forced to treat adverse media screening as a frontline compliance control rather than a secondary check, as a wave of...

Source of Funds compliance has spent much of the past decade as a background AML task, a box ticked on higher-value transactions rather than...

The golden rule of advertising compliance has quietly been rewritten. For decades, a misleading ad only attracted regulatory attention if a consumer was annoyed...

The regulatory rulebooks of the UK and the EU, once built on an identical foundation of European financial services law, are steadily pulling apart,...

The UK government has announced that the FCA will become the single AML and CTF supervisor for the legal sector. The decision, revealed on...

2025 has brought a sharp escalation in enforcement action against UK law firms over anti-money laundering (AML) failings, with regulators handing out some of...