Anti-money laundering - the essentials

The NSA provides a comprehensive assessment of the threat to the UK from serious and organised crime (SOC), drawing out the key trends and themes of the last 12 months. This year’s assessment provides an important picture of the evolving threat landscape, with several themes of relevance to our collective efforts against SOC.

This issue explores how criminals exploit professional services to scam individuals and businesses, highlights emerging threats such as crypto investment fraud and shares insights on tackling financial crime, including risks in social housing. The issue also contains practical guidance on SAR processes and case studies demonstrating how intelligence supports law enforcement.

This booklet contains a sanitised summary of feedback from law enforcement agencies on their use of SARs.

Hear about the ‘top 8’ areas where firms should focus their attention to support compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations.

Although the government chose to scrap the Audit Reform Bill, Sophie Wales, Director of Regulatory Policy at ICAEW, outlines some of the other regulatory changes still coming this year.