On 26 November 2025, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published updated Guidance on Evaluating a Corporate Compliance Programme. The new guidance replaces the previous guidance introduced in January 2020 and sets out six scenarios in which the SFO may assess an organisation’s compliance programme. Following the introduction of the “failure…

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. The Act is a landmark development in the UK Government’s long-standing efforts to enhance the UK’s economic crime enforcement framework, and the Act introduces a number of important measures designed to improve corporate transparency and tackle economic crime in the UK
and abroad.