The Financial Services Authority has published a guidance consultation concerning changes it proposes to make to the regulatory guide entitled Financial crime: a guide for firms.

The Financial Services Authority has published the findings of a thematic review into anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) systems and controls in investment banks

The European Central Bank has published several opinions relating to markets in financial instruments and insider dealing.

The Financial Services Authority (“FSA”) has fined Coutts & Company (“Coutts”) £8.75 million for failing to take reasonable care to establish and maintain effective anti-money laundering (“AML”) systems and controls relating to high risk customers, including Politically Exposed Persons.

Cybercrime has risen up the ranks over the last year to become the second most commonly reported economic crime affecting companies in the financial services sector after asset misappropriation (which remains the traditional and most popular way of defrauding an organisation), according to the lates

On 30 November 2011 the International Development Committee published its Eleventh Report of Session 2010-12, Financial Crime and Development (HC 847). On 31 January 2012 the Government Responded to the Report.

On 5 February 2010 an agreement was reached between the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and BAE Systems arising from the criminal offence of improper book-keeping, which BAE Systems admitted in connection with the sale of a military air traffic control system to the Government of Tanzania.

This paper updates the Governance and Anticorruption Strategy endorsed by the World Bank Board of Executive Directors on October 7, 2007.

Income and asset disclosure (“IAD”) systems are gaining recognition as an important corruption prevention and anticorruption enforcement tool.

The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act would prohibit members and employees of Congress from using "any nonpublic information derived from the individual's position… or gained from performance of the individual's duties, for personal benefit.” The Act passed the House