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March 27, 2026
A director at a City law firm has formally been sanctioned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority after he was found to have written a letter that undermined public confidence in the profession.
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March 27, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said Friday that it has fined Dinosaur Merchant Bank £338,000 ($449,000) for failing to maintain adequate systems to detect and report potential market abuse.
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March 27, 2026
The Competition and Markets Authority said Friday that it has launched consumer law investigations into five companies, including Autotrader and Just Eat, over concerns about fake or misleading online reviews.
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March 27, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority failed to protect former members of the British Steel Pension Scheme from foreseeable harm in a series of regulatory failings, the complaints commissioner has said.
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March 27, 2026
An EU court correctly interpreted rules on how competition cases are shared between national regulators and the European Commission when it upheld a cartel fine of €7.67 million ($8.83 million) against Crown Holdings Inc., an advocate general has said.
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March 27, 2026
The Ministry of Justice has said the number of cases awaiting trial at Crown Courts in England and Wales has climbed above 80,000 for the first time as the government said it would pull "every lever" to cut the growing backlog.
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March 26, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday that the Court of Appeal should uphold a ruling that a regulatory tribunal should rehear allegations that Dentons had breached anti-money laundering regulations, arguing that the tribunal had misdirected itself.
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March 26, 2026
The U.K. sanctioned on Thursday a "key lieutenant" to the billionaire businessman behind Cambodia's scam centers as well as a major crypto marketplace catering to fraudsters in the latest crackdown on online threats that target Britons.
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March 26, 2026
Italian police said Thursday that they have seized approximately €20 million ($23 million) worth of assets in Florence, suspected to be the proceeds of money laundering that allegedly targeted James Bond actor Ursula Andress.
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March 26, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority set out plans on Thursday to use artificial intelligence as a regulatory tool to authorize businesses and detect harm faster in its annual work program.
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March 26, 2026
Crispin Odey denied at a tribunal on Thursday that he threatened to shut down his hedge fund to force executives not to impose restrictions on him to safeguard women at the firm after repeated allegations of sexual misconduct.
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March 26, 2026
European Union lawmakers passed a new set of bloc-wide anti-corruption rules on Thursday that will streamline legal definitions and set out penalties for bribery, misappropriation and economic crimes as the bloc seeks to crack down on corruption across borders.
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March 26, 2026
A bank in Wales must help pay a former senior executive's costs in a dispute over claims that it fired him for raising concerns that his line manager was allegedly accepting bribes from the CEO.
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March 26, 2026
The accounting watchdog has launched a modernized supervisory framework for audit firms, centered on their systems of quality management used to deal with risks to audit quality.
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March 26, 2026
A former police officer and treasurer with the West Mercia Police Federation has been sent to prison after using members' funds to pay for family holidays, alcohol and entertainment.
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March 26, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority has been given a lead role in targeting money laundering, crypto-assets and money transfer scams in a government fraud strategy involving multiple agencies, which lawyers expect will boost enforcement action and heap a new compliance burden on financial institutions.
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March 25, 2026
Amazon has failed to strike out a class action over its allegedly abusive pricing policies which saw higher fees passed on to consumers, as a tribunal rejected the technology giant's argument that the proceedings are an abuse of process.
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March 25, 2026
Dentons on Wednesday sought to block allegations it breached anti-money laundering regulations being litigated before a tribunal for a second time, arguing at the Court of Appeal that the case had been rightly dismissed the first time.
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March 25, 2026
A London court declined on Wednesday to stop the extradition to India of jewelry magnate Nirav Modi over an alleged $2 billion fraud after accepting diplomatic assurances he wouldn't be tortured.
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March 25, 2026
Crispin Odey told a London tribunal on Wednesday that he denied trying to stop a member of staff who he had groped from speaking to the Financial Conduct Authority while it investigated his conduct at the hedge fund.
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March 25, 2026
The government floated plans on Wednesday to streamline the civil enforcement powers of corporate watchdogs to ban unscrupulous directors as it warned that as many as one million companies might be fraudulent.
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March 25, 2026
A Chinese man living in the U.K. has been ordered to explain how he built an £81 million ($108 million) property portfolio in London amid a wider investigation into whether the money was the proceeds of crime.
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March 25, 2026
Unicredit rightly withheld $69.3 million in payments to aircraft lessors for planes stranded in Russia, Britain's top court ruled Wednesday, as it found that the sanctions regime prevented the bank from making payments connected to the supply of aircraft to Russian airlines.
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March 24, 2026
A judge lawfully issued search and seizure warrants against a man convicted in Germany over a €58 million ($67.2 million) value-added tax "carousel" fraud, a London court has held, because there were reasonable grounds to suspect he had invested the proceeds in Bitcoin.
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March 24, 2026
Deutsche Bank urged the Court of Appeal on Tuesday to revive its bid to order Monaco-based billionaire Alexander Vik to answer questions about his company's assets, in the latest development in its effort to enforce a judgment debt of more than $360 million.