Data Driven Compliance: Navigating the Failure to Prevent Fraud: Key Insights and Implications
FCPA Compliance Report – Self-Disclosure on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Data Driven Compliance: Navigating Self-Disclosure Under the FTPF and Updated ECCT
Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the ECCTA and Its Impact with Jonathan Armstrong
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, May 3, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 30, 2025, The 4 AM Wake-Up Call Edition
Compliance into the Weeds: Global Anti-Corruption Leadership
Life with GDPR - The ABB Enforcement Action from a UK Perspective
Everything Compliance-Episode 57-the Airbus edition
This Week in FCPA-Episode 190, week ending January 31, 2020 – the What’s $4 Billion Between Friends edition
This Week in FCPA-Episode 58, the Declination Edition
Everything Compliance-Episode 12
FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 282-SCCE CEI Wrap-up, Part II
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 167-Mara Senn on the Top 10 Practices in a Cross-Border Investigation
Under Part IVA of the Employment Rights Act 1996, “protected disclosures”– which is the UK legislative term for “whistleblowing reports”can be made either to an employer or to certain “prescribed persons”. For those working...more
Recent enforcement signals from UK regulators have made one thing clear: Fraud risk, and how organisations identify, assess and respond to it, is firmly back in the spotlight. Public statements from the Serious Fraud Office...more
The fraud landscape in 2025 has consisted of investigations into investment, cryptocurrency, and other cyber frauds, as well as key enforcement changes in both the U.S. and UK. As we look back on 2025, this article will cover...more
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more
The Serious Fraud Office has spent the past two years building pace, confidence and public credibility. But the announcement of the Director's retirement – followed closely by the imminent exit of senior prosecutors on...more
The UK continues to strengthen its approach to white collar crime and corporate investigations, with significant legal and regulatory reforms introduced in 2025 and further changes anticipated. The UK Government’s new...more
On 8 January 2026, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that it will return £400,000 to nine victims of a global email fraud dating back more than two decades. The move, achieved through a civil recovery order under the...more
City of London Police's new reporting service replaces Action Fraud – but questions remain about impact, technology and how it fits with SFO routes. platform....more
Connect with senior legal and compliance leaders later this month at ACI’s 19th Forum on the FCPA & Global Anti-Corruption Houston. Learn directly from enforcement officials, pressure-test your compliance approach with...more
The United Kingdom enters 2026 with a reinvigorated enforcement landscape. Whether the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has turned a corner remains an open question, but the agency now has a bold agenda of pursuing faster...more
On 26 November 2025, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published its Updated Guidance on how it would evaluate a company’s compliance programme (the Guidance) for the purposes of prosecutions, considering defences to the...more
2025 marked a watershed in UK white collar crime enforcement and corporate compliance. With the introduction of the “failure to prevent fraud” offence, organisations face a new and more dangerous landscape of criminal...more
New UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) guidance on corporate compliance programs brings greater clarity following the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA). Our White Collar, Government & Internal...more
On 28 November 2025, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published its annual report on whistleblowing disclosures and updated its guidance titled “Information for Whistleblowers”. While the guidance itself remains unchanged, the...more
There is a clear sense that the current UK Government wants to put criminal justice reform back on the agenda – and economic crime is a big part of that. Fraud and corruption plainly cost the UK economy huge sums, yet...more
As another significant year in white-collar crime and corporate enforcement in the UK comes to a close, we have summarised the key developments shaping the regulatory and investigations landscape in 2025. Below is a snapshot...more
The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has published updated guidance on evaluating corporate compliance programmes, clarifying when and how such assessments occur. The updated guidance identifies six scenarios in which it may...more
On 26 November 2025, the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published guidance on ‘when, why and how’ it will evaluate corporate compliance programmes (the Compliance Guidance)....more
In all of the SFO’s corporate prosecutions and Deferred Prosecution Agreements to date for failure to prevent bribery, there are common themes. One of these is that although the organisations had some policies and procedures...more
The number of private prosecutions in the UK has skyrocketed in the past decade, increasing the risk of costly legal proceedings for companies and individuals alike. A new High Court judgment may put a dampener on things. ...more
Internal controls must be tailored, proportionate, and risk-based — not just a “paper exercise”. ...more
On 26 November 2025, the UK Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) published an updated version of its Guidance on Evaluating a Corporate Compliance Programme (the “Guidance”)....more
Executive Overview - On 26 November 2025 the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published its first ever guidance on Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programmes. The document provides organisations with greater visibility into how...more