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Addleshaw Goddard LLP | United Kingdom | 8 Feb 2021
Emotet, a malware that was used by cybercriminals to infiltrate thousands of companies and millions of computers worldwide, has been taken down in an…
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Addleshaw Goddard LLP | United Kingdom | 11 Jan 2021
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has been working with cybercrime teams from across the UK in an operation aimed at preventing criminals who targeted…
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William Fry | European Union, Ireland, United Kingdom | 13 Nov 2020
Mass surveillance conducted by European Union (EU) Member State national Security Services should operate within the bounds of the EU's privacy laws…
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FTI Consulting Inc | United Kingdom, USA | 30 Oct 2020
First a disclosure - I used to be a Nominated Officer at a big bank, and so was `nominated' to receive internal suspicious activity reports (SARs)…
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Macfarlanes LLP | United Kingdom | 8 Oct 2020
On 7 October, the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced that for the first time it has successfully used an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) to forfeit…
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Macfarlanes LLP | United Kingdom | 8 Oct 2020
Welcome to the latest quarterly update of 2020, in which we review some of the key developments affecting financial services and markets in the areas…
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Morrison & Foerster LLP | Brazil, European Union, United Kingdom | 23 Sep 2020
In our Quarterly Review, we bring you important UK developments relating to business crime, investigations and regulatory enforcement from the last…
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Macfarlanes LLP | United Kingdom | 18 Sep 2020
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a short but welcome statement setting out its position on the listing of cannabis-related…
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Kingsley Napley | United Kingdom | 11 Aug 2020
The Government announced its intention to introduce an Economic Crime Levy in the Budget 2020. This is designed to fund Government action to tackle…
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Dentons | United Kingdom | 10 Jul 2020
Judgment was handed down in the matter of National Crime Agency and National Westminster Bank Plc v. Odewale and Yadav [2020] EWHC 1609…