- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Ruth Prickett2024-06-06T13:52:00
Despite repeated interventions, fines, and negative publicity, money laundering is rife in U.K. financial services firms, according to Deputy Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell.
Mitchell made headlines last month for telling think tank Bright Blue that “40 percent of money laundering around the world … comes through London and overseas territories and crown dependencies.”
In April, Mitchell committed to tackling illicit flows of money by forcing companies to be transparent about their ownership.
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2024-07-30T18:09:00Z By Helen Siegieda, International Compliance Association
Recent events have put a spotlight on the role of the U.K. Gambling Commission, following its investigation into privileged information allegedly being used to bet on the date of the U.K. general election.
2024-03-05T20:55:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority warned the chief executive officers of approximately 1,000 financial institutions it supervises regarding common failures in anti-money laundering procedures it observed during recent assessments.
2023-11-24T15:14:00Z By Neil Hodge
The success of the U.K.’s latest legislative efforts to tackle financial crime depends on the capability of transforming what is often regarded as one of the country’s most passive regulators into a proactive—even aggressive—prosecuting authority.
2025-03-18T16:56:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The U.S. Treasury’s effort to dramatically narrow the focus of the Corporate Transparency Act through “emergency” rulemaking would gut the law’s anti-money laundering efforts, a transparency expert said.
2025-03-11T16:46:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Two senators behind the Corporate Transparency Act have demanded that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent justify his suspension of one of the law’s anti-money laundering requirements.
2025-03-07T15:42:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
TD Bank leadership called its response to anti-money laundering program lapses its “top priority” as federal regulators named their choice of a compliance monitor to oversee a top-to-bottom rebuild of its AML program.
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