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UK practice compliance: sanctions amendments and guidance, AML/CTF developments, failure-to-prevent fraud guidance, and SRA consultations on client money and in-house practice—weekly highlights, 21 November 2024

Published on: 21 November 2024

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In this issue:

  • Financial sanctions
  • AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing
  • Other financial crime
  • Other Practice
  • Compliance updates this week
  • Daily and weekly news alerts
  • New and updated content

Financial sanctions

Changes to sanctions legislation introduced

On 14 November 2024, the Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No 2) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/1157) were laid before Parliament. The instrument revises 35 pieces of secondary sanctions legislation, including: adjustments to licensing and exceptions provisions; amended notification duties in specified situations; changes to reporting obligations for relevant firms and involved persons; an amendment to certain asset-freeze prohibitions; and new civil monetary penalty powers for breaches in relation to Russia land prohibitions. Taken together, the package is intended to strengthen HM Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) in implementing and enforcing financial sanctions. See: LNB News 15/11/2024 26.

New sanctions guidance for Insolvency Practitioners and Letting Agents

The Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2024, SI 2024/1157, also widen the definition of relevant firms subject to financial sanctions reporting, bringing further sectors into scope—high value dealers, art market participants, insolvency practitioners and letting agencies...

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