Helen Harvey
Macfarlanes LLP
Articles
A new year note on the SFO: Review of 2020 and outlook for 2021
United Kingdom - January 8 2021 However, the SFO’s failure to prosecute individuals associated with corporates who have agreed DPAs was a trend which continued from 2019. And the…
FCA fines and prohibits hedge fund Chief Investment Officer for market abuse
United Kingdom - December 16 2020 On 15 December 2020, the FCA announced it had fined a hedge fund Chief Investment Officer (CIO) £100,000 for market abuse and had prohibited him from…
Tis the season… for online fraud
United Kingdom - November 27 2020 Bargain hunters are not the only ones who’ve been looking forward to the Black Friday sales… fraudsters have been getting ready too. The fraud rate -…
Record number of money laundering reports submitted in the UK
United Kingdom - November 24 2020 The 2020 Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) Annual Report was published on 19 November, reporting a record number of SARs. SARs must be submitted if…
Art attack: sanctions risk in the art world
USA - November 4 2020 The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory on 30 October to highlight sanctions risks arising…
