In this podcast my partner, Anna Lawry, and I consider the Short Selling Regulation (SSR), which came into force in 2012, what it covers...

On 19 November the NCA published its Suspicious Activity Reports Annual Report 2020.  The number of DAMLs (Defence Against Money...

The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has published a new chapter in its internal Operational Handbook, which offers guidance on the SFO's...

Can we talk for a minute about international data transfers? (It’s Friday: humour me.) There’s been plenty of ink already spilled on the...

£1.25 million may seem like a high fine when balanced against the old maximum rate of £500,000, but it seems very low when balanced...

On 11 November 2020, the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) published its first report on capital gains tax in response to a specific...

I smile to myself when people say that data protection compliance is nothing more than a box-ticking exercise. (In all seriousness,...

As we noted in our update earlier this year, newly elected Labour leader Keir Starmer had appointed Ed Miliband as shadow business,...

On Monday, in London, at the Green Horizon Summit run by the Green Finance Institute, headline announcements were made by UK Chancellor...

As Democrats and others worldwide celebrate the historic win of the Biden-Harris ticket, investors should pay close to attention to his...

Donald Rumsfeld and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office don’t seem like natural bedfellows. But reading the ICO’s recent penalty...