Anti-Money Laundering

19May2022

Defending failure to prevent offences

19th May 2022

Anti-Money Laundering, Bribery and Corruption, Corporate Crime, Financial Crime, Insights, John Binns, News & Insights, Regulatory, Tom McNeill

BCL Senior Associate Tom McNeill and partner John Binns explore the reasons why organisations are not defending failure to prevent offences.

31Mar2022

John Binns speaks to The Times on the practicalities of an international anti-corruption court

31st March 2022

Amy Ayvazyan

Anti-Money Laundering, Bribery and Corruption, Financial Crime, John Binns, News, News & Insights

BCL partner John Binns has been quoted in The Times’s discussing the practicalities of launching an international anti-corruption court and the operational difficulties it could encounter to implement the good intentions of the United Nations Convention against corruption.

2Mar2022

ECB questions AMLA’s effectiveness over scope, resource concerns – John Binns quoted in Compliance Week

2nd March 2022

Amy Ayvazyan

Anti-Money Laundering, John Binns, News, News & Insights

BCL partner John Binns has been quoted in ‘ECB questions AMLA’s effectiveness over scope, resource concerns’ published by Compliance Week.

26Jan2022

Cifas markers and how to challenge them

26th January 2022

Duncan Edgecombe

Andrew Watson, Anti-Money Laundering, Insights, Legal guides, Money Laundering, News & Insights, Regulatory, Serious Fraud, Theft, Fraud and Dishonesty

With a growing number of financial institutions reporting people to a Cifas anti-fraud database, BCL’s Andrew Watson explains what to do if you find yourself the innocent subject of a Cifas marker.

27Oct2021

Modern Slavery and Money Laundering: The Duty Most Companies Don’t Know They Have

27th October 2021

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Anti-Money Laundering, Insights, John Binns, Money Laundering, News & Insights

Do UK companies have a duty to prevent, or report, forced labour or human trafficking? The answer, for now, is ‘not quite’ – but duties in this area are strengthening in practice, thanks to laws on modern slavery and money laundering.

12Oct2021

What NatWest’s £400m fine tells us about corporate liability for money laundering – John Binns writes for Reports Legal

12th October 2021

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Anti-Money Laundering, John Binns, Money Laundering, News, News & Insights

BCL partner John Binns’s article ‘Failure and Fault: What NatWest’s £400m fine tells us about corporate liability for money laundering’ has been published by Reports Legal.

29May2021

How to lose friends and alienate nations: with its clear disregard for legal norms, Belarus takes its rogue state status up a gear

29th May 2021

Duncan Edgecombe

Anti-Money Laundering, Cross Border Crime, Extradition and Interpol, Insights, News, News & Insights, Suzanne Gallagher

Belarus’ recent actions demonstrate how not to seek an arrest, as well as how to invite international sanctions, as John Binns and Suzanne Gallagher explain.

20May2021

Money laundering in 2021: John Binns speaks for LexisNexis webinar

20th May 2021

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Anti-Money Laundering, John Binns, News, News & Insights

BCL partner John Binns speaks on AML regulation and enforcement in the recent ‘Money laundering in 2021’ webinar from LexisNexis.

3Mar2021

NCA planning AML crack down on company formation agents – John Binns writes for GRC World Forums

3rd March 2021

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Anti-Money Laundering, John Binns, News, News & Insights

BCL partner John Binns’ article ‘Blaming company formation agents misses the bigger picture about AML in the UK’ has been published by GRC World Forums.

22Feb2021

Money Laundering: Who Bears the Burden? John Binns writes for Solicitors Journal

22nd February 2021

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Anti-Money Laundering, John Binns, News, News & Insights

BCL partner John Binn’s article ‘Money Laundering: Who Bears the Burden?’ has been published by Solicitors Journal discussing the governments claims that regulated firms should pay to help improve its efforts to tackle money laundering.

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