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Practice Compliance weekly briefing: UK sanctions (OFSI/FCDO, NCA forfeiture), POCA 2002 ruling, ICO generative AI consultation, CMA consumer law reforms, SRA AML/sanctions collection - 22 August 2024

Published on: 22 August 2024

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In this issue:

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

Practice Compliance forecast

New Practice Compliance forecast as at 20 August 2024

Our updated Practice Compliance forecast (as at 20 August 2024) is now available. This edition highlights the SRA’s AML and sanctions data collection exercise and indicates when guidance on the new failure to prevent fraud offence is expected. See News Analysis: New Practice Compliance forecast as at 20 August 2024.

Financial sanctions

OFSI updates UK Financial Sanctions FAQs

The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has revised its FAQs, which provide concise guidance and technical details on financial sanctions. Twenty new questions have been added to the Russia section. These were previously within OFSI’s Russia sanctions guidance and have now been incorporated into OFSI’s central FAQs page. See: LNB News 16/08/2024 9.

FCDO updates guidance on Somalia sanctions following UNSCR 2713 (2023)

The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has updated its guidance on the Somalia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, SI 2020/5971. The revisions reflect changes arising from United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2713...

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