Partner Hannah Laming , Associate Craig Hogg and Legal Researcher Katie Jones discuss the extension to the Senior Manager and Certification Regime (SMCR) in the Law Society Gazette

Brian McDonald May 12, 2020 0 Comments

On 9 December 2019, the SMCR was extended to authorised firms regulated solely by the FCA, replacing the former Approved Persons Regime. The SMCR is intended to protect consumers by strengthening market integrity through an enhanced governance, individual responsibility and accountability framework, comprising conduct rules and overlapping Senior Managers’ and Certified Persons’ regimes. Read more

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RUSI publishes the second paper on the Future of UK Sanctions policy

Brian McDonald May 14, 2020 0 Comments

The second RUSI paper on ‘Coordinating Sanctions after Brexit’, draws on the work conducted by the RUSI Sanctions Taskforce, supported and funded by Peters & Peters. It analyses the merits and challenges of the UK coordinating new sanctions initiatives with international partners, and also the extent to which the UK could pursue its own sanctions […]

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“Privacy concerns must not be shut out in rush to control virus”, Head of International Keith Oliver and Legal researcher Amalia Neenan discuss in The Times and have also been featured in the weekly edition of The Times Brief Newsletter

Brian McDonald May 14, 2020 0 Comments

Dystopian visions of spies — technological or human — betraying a cowed population to authoritarian regimes are rife in literature. We have not quite reached the level of surveillance depicted in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale — but this could be how it starts: a global catastrophe, followed by enhanced governmental control. The latest controversy relates to […]

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Partner Nick Vamos is quoted in Bloomberg about Ex-billionaire Mallya’s extradition case

Brian McDonald May 14, 2020 0 Comments

Former billionaire Vijay Mallya is a step closer to being extradited to India to face impending fraud charges, after two judges ruled that the case raised no public interest issues, and therefore ruled out an appeal to the Supreme Court. “Extradition must take place within 28 days of the decision of the Supreme Court refusing […]

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Senior partner Michael O’Kane is quoted in the Financial Times on the acquittal of the three former Barclays bankers of fraud charges

Brian McDonald February 28, 2020 0 Comments

The Serious Fraud Office has suffered a crushing defeat in the high-profile seven-year case against three former top executives at Barclays, after they were all cleared of fraud charges relating to deals made with Qatar during the financial crisis. The three defendants – Roger Jenkins, Tom Kalaris and Richard Boath — were acquitted after a […]

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Senior partner Michael O’Kane is quoted extensively across a range of media outlets on the acquittal of the three former Barclays bankers of fraud charges

Brian McDonald March 2, 2020 0 Comments

Bloomberg Financial News The Law Society Gazette The Telegraph City A.M. The Lawyer The Wall Street Journal Financial Times   

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Head of International, Keith Oliver, serves as Contributing Editor to the First Edition of the CDR Essential Intelligence Series which is a comprehensive and detailed guide to the practice of Global Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery litigation. Together with Legal Researcher, Amalia Neenan, they discuss the latest developments impacting the sector in England & Wales

Brian McDonald March 12, 2020 0 Comments

It has been an eventful 12 months in the international fraud arena. Crowe’s ‘2019 The Financial Cost of Fraud Report’, indicates that fraud has cost the global economy £3.89 trillion in the last year, with losses having risen by 56% in the last 10 years. A key international contributing factor to this figure, is the […]

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Partners Hannah Laming and Anna Bradshaw chaired the ABC and AML streams at the Infoline AML & ABC Forum 2020 in London on 10 and 11 March 2020

Brian McDonald March 12, 2020 0 Comments

The Infoline AML & ABC Forum 2020 is designed to enable the financial services industry to benchmark compliance processes and understand the impact of regulatory developments in anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC).  Anna Bradshaw moderated the ‘Heads of Financial Crime Think Tank’ panel, and ‘Establishing efficient KYC & Utilising new technologies’ panel […]

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Peters & Peters – Operational Plans in response to Covid-19

Brian McDonald March 13, 2020 0 Comments

Further to the continued spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus , Peters & Peters have instigated a clear plan aimed at preserving both our operational effectiveness and service delivery. Our focus is, of course, the safeguarding of the health and wellbeing of our clients and employees and the continued, uninterrupted service to all our clients. We […]

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Partner Anna Bradshaw is quoted in MoneyLaundering.com on Unexplained Wealth Orders targeting the family of former Kazakh President

Brian McDonald March 17, 2020 0 Comments

Partner Anna Bradshaw speaks to the Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) about the wider implications of Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) obtained by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in support of investigations into property connected with Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), in the wake of legal challenges made to UWOs targeting London properties owned […]

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