Plans to pay whistleblowers are likely to shape the government's search for the next director of the Serious Fraud Office as the U.K. mulls controversial reforms that will need the full backing of the white-collar prosecutor, lawyers say.
Prosecutors are weighing charges over the Grenfell Tower fire after a nine-year police investigation, but lawyers say that building criminal cases from the evidence will be difficult because of the potential number of defendants and complex chains of responsibility.
Proposals to reward whistleblowers for information could put the Serious Fraud Office back on boardroom agendas, despite the controversy and practical hurdles facing the government's proposed incentive program, lawyers say.
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Lawyers and MPs are calling for an externally-led investigation into the handling by the Financial Conduct Authority of whistleblower Simon Andriesz before his recent suicide, the latest in a series of controversies over its treatment of whistleblowers.
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Plans to pay whistleblowers are likely to shape the government's search for the next director of the Serious Fraud Office as the U.K. mulls controversial reforms that will need the full backing of the white-collar prosecutor, lawyers say.
Prosecutors are weighing charges over the Grenfell Tower fire after a nine-year police investigation, but lawyers say that building criminal cases from the evidence will be difficult because of the potential number of defendants and complex chains of responsibility.
Proposals to reward whistleblowers for information could put the Serious Fraud Office back on boardroom agendas, despite the controversy and practical hurdles facing the government's proposed incentive program, lawyers say.
Lawyers and MPs are calling for an externally-led investigation into the handling by the Financial Conduct Authority of whistleblower Simon Andriesz before his recent suicide, the latest in a series of controversies over its treatment of whistleblowers.
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October 26, 2026
EasyJet has denied that it owes the Irish arm of a Russian aircraft lessor $72 million, telling a London court that it had to abandon six aircraft in light of U.K. and European Union sanctions.
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October 26, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority's proposed rewrite of mortgage rules within its consumer duty regime, designed to protect households from taking risky financial action, could lead home buyers to make poor decisions and expose them to misselling traps, according to legal experts.
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October 26, 2026
A property developer is seeking to overturn a judgment against him of almost $15 million, alleging that his former business partner's company used a fraudulent agreement bearing a signature in his name to persuade a court that he owed millions under a financing deal.
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October 26, 2026
The European Commission said Monday that it has approved Temu's plan to improve its risk assessments after it fined the online retailer €200 million ($224 million) in May over illegal products sold on its platform.
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October 23, 2026
British prosecutors on Friday froze £50 million ($67 million) worth of cars, cash, a yacht and overseas properties using sweeping dirty money powers as part of a wider money laundering investigation into two U.K. nationals.
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October 23, 2026
Three Conservative Party insiders received suspended sentences Friday for cheating at gambling by placing bets on the timing of the 2024 general election.
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October 23, 2026
Two individuals have been convicted in Germany for acting as members of a criminal organization to carry out a €200 million ($224 million) value-added tax fraud involving electronics, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said Friday.
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October 23, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said Friday it plans to strengthen its financial crime controls to combat criminals as they adopt increasingly sophisticated methods and harness new technologies to create fresh threats.
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October 23, 2026
A former Goldman Sachs banker accused of misappropriating assets from the multimillionaire wife of an imprisoned Turkish politician was given permission by a judge on Friday to call Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to give evidence at trial.
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October 23, 2026
A former Nigerian governor convicted of money laundering asked the Court of Appeal on Friday to reduce his £101.5 million ($135.7 million) confiscation order, arguing an earlier judge wrongly accounted for inflation on money in frozen accounts.
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October 23, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England have proposed simplifying the senior managers and certification regime, which they say would save businesses £2 billion ($2.7 billion) a year.
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October 23, 2026
The past week in London has seen former solicitor Paul Baxendale-Walker file a claim, private equity firm Novalpina Capital sue its founder Stefan Emanuel Kowski amid fallout over its investment in NSO Group, and Boehringer bring a patents claim against Teva Pharmaceuticals.
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October 23, 2026
A former senior judge has spoken out against government plans to allow judge-only trials for cases of serious fraud and financial crime, rejecting arguments that juries are unable to understand complex cases.
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October 23, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said Friday it has restrained the activities of six unregulated lenders over concerns about their anti-money laundering controls, limiting their ability to take on new customers or extend credit to existing borrowers.
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October 23, 2026
The Central Bank of Ireland has fined crypto asset-trading platform Coinbase Ireland more than €3.2 million ($3.8 million) for breaches of its safeguarding and outsourcing obligations under European Union regulations.
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October 22, 2026
The U.K. risks losing its ability to respond to rapid technological change, and regulators and industry must collaborate more quickly to protect financial markets from emerging threats, the head of the Financial Conduct Authority said Thursday.
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October 22, 2026
Boutique white collar criminal law firm Rahman Ravelli has gone into administration after a quarter-century of representing clients in corporate crime cases.
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October 22, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority warned law firms Thursday to ensure lawyers follow their anti-money laundering procedures, after finding that firms were failing to put their own policies into practice.
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October 22, 2026
A Russian motorsport promoter has alleged that Formula One made an "unconscionable" demand for "vast" fees for races that didn't take place after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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October 22, 2026
The European Union's anti-fraud office and its new anti-money laundering authority have agreed to strengthen cooperation, including sharing information on suspected financial crime and coordinating investigations into activities harmful to the bloc's financial interests.
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October 22, 2026
Amazon has succeeded in its £1.1 million ($1.5 million) claim against the operators of online refund fraud service Spectre, which the e-commerce giant had accused of "systematic refund abuse."
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October 22, 2026
A London judge gave Güralp Systems Ltd. more time Thursday to negotiate with the Serious Fraud Office over the alleged failure by the seismological testing company to pay £2.1 million ($2.8 million) under a seven-year-old agreement.
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October 22, 2026
A Russian national living in Germany who pledged allegiance to a Cossack society that supports Russia's war against Ukraine has had European Union sanctions against him lifted after the bloc's General Court found insufficient evidence linking him to a Kremlin-backed organization.
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October 21, 2026
Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. urged a London judge Wednesday to order lawyers for a Serious Fraud Office investigator to file a sworn statement that they had handed over all documents relevant to their retainer with him in a £1.8 million ($2.4 million) costs dispute.
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October 21, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority confirmed on Wednesday that it has closed its investigation into Home REIT, a social housing investor, while a criminal probe by the Serious Fraud Office into the company is still underway.