Digital financial crime platform Themis has announced a new strategic partnership with UK-based Diligencia, which provides corporate intelligence and due diligence solutions in the Middle East and Africa. Themis, which operates out of the UK and the UAE, uses advanced… Read More ›
The majority of the UK’s trade banks have agreed to take part in a new initiative led by a unit of the International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom (ICCUK) to strengthen the country’s finance industry against the impacts of duplicate… Read More ›
The crown dependencies of the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey have put on hold their plans to open up their beneficial ownership registries to the public. The three territories, that are not part of the UK but are self-governing… Read More ›
Britain’s tax and customs authority, His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), is developing a strategic action plan to significantly degrade the ability of organised crime groups to use trade-based money laundering (TBML). Writing in the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA)… Read More ›
More than one in ten of all Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) ever incorporated in Britain bear the hallmarks of shell companies used for serious financial crimes, according to a new report published today by Transparency International UK (TI). The independent… Read More ›
Nearly a decade after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) introduced requirements for National Risk Assessments (NRAs) of money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risks, the international community is at the right point to review the past 10 years and… Read More ›
UK overseas jurisdictions, collectively with the UK itself, make up the world’s biggest enabler of financial secrecy, according to analysis by the Tax Justice Network (TJN). While the UK overseas jurisdictions, some of which have a reputation for operating as… Read More ›
New research by one of the world’s leading providers of vessel-tracking, sanctions screening and regulatory solutions endeavours to explain why banks, financial organisations, carriers, and shippers in the UK and Switzerland are losing out on big opportunities in green finance… Read More ›