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Professional Standards Update December 2025

Explore our top 2025 regulatory resources and learn more about our Regulation and Conduct Strategy which highlights our role in ‘helping members and firms to maintain high professional standards and holding them to those standards’. Find out the initial results from our first year of CPD monitoring reviews under the updated regulations and access the latest disciplinary cases.

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Key reminders and updates

ICAEW Regulation and Conduct 2030 Strategy
  • Regulations
  • 02 Dec 2025
Find out about the ICAEW Regulation and Conduct strategy (led by the ICAEW Regulatory Board), its strategic pillars and our commitments as an improvement regulator.
CPD: early insights from firm monitoring
  • Article
  • 02 Dec 2025
ICAEW’s Quality Assurance Department (QAD) has completed its first year of CPD monitoring under the revised CPD Regulations.
Disciplinary update: November 2025
  • Newsletter
  • 25 Nov 2025
Take note of the latest disciplinary cases to ensure you or your firm are not making similar mistakes.
Duplicate firms appearing on Companies House
  • Article
  • 14 Nov 2025
Ahead of Companies House ID verification coming in for new directors, several companies seemingly posing as existing firms have incorporated in recent weeks.
Raising audit quality worldwide: Duncan Wiggetts on taking Crossing the Line on tour
  • Article
  • 10 Dec 2025

Duncan Wiggetts reflects on the global reaction to Crossing the Line and the insights gathered from audiences spanning four continents.

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Top regulatory resources of 2025

Grouped by regulated area, review the most accessed resources from last year to help you remain compliant in 2026.

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Audit

Audit monitoring insights webinar recording: Ethical standard

The recording of the last webinar in our audit monitoring insights series focusing on ethical standard is now available.

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Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

New SARs best practice guidance

In November 2025, the UKFIU published updated guidance relating to Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR). It pertains to using the SAR portal, submitting a SAR and understanding DAMLs and DATFs. Find out what you need to know to stay current with the latest requirements.

2025 AML Results webinar: on demand

Access the recording of our recent webinar which presented the results of our 2024/25 anti-money laundering supervisory activity and our 2025 thematic review which focused on suspicious activity reports.

AML supervision reform: Duties, powers, and accountability consultation
HM Treasury has published a consultation to hear feedback on proposals to reform the supervision of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) compliance among professional services businesses. HM Treasury is keen to hear from stakeholders across the AML-regulated population. There is also an opportunity to register for roundtable discussions on the proposals.
SARs in Action: Issue 34

This issue features updates on the SARs Digital Service, key global initiatives and case studies demonstrating the positive outcome of SARs.

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Probate

ICAEW’s expanded position statement on the recent Mazur Judgment
  • Article
  • 09 Dec 2025

We have expanded our statement following the recent Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP judgment. Read clarification for ICAEW probate practitioners.

HMCTS update for probate firms: December 2025
  • Article
  • 09 Dec 2025
ICAEW attended the Probate Professional User Group with HMCTS in December to hear the latest updates on service performance and ongoing improvement. Read the key updates HMCTS would like us to share with our firms.
Digital exclusion in the legal sector
  • Report
  • 09 Dec 2025
Working alongside other legal regulatory bodies, ICAEW commissioned a report on digital exclusion in the legal sector to identify challenges faced by those with little or no access to digital information, with the aim of supporting them in overcoming barriers to access the information they need for making informed decisions.
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Insolvency

Why your next insolvency monitoring visit may be earlier than expected
  • Article
  • 04 Dec 2025
Following an increased number of queries regarding insolvency monitoring dates, we would like to remind practitioners how our review cycle is set and what factors may bring forward your visit date.
The waiting game: changes to Insolvency Regulations
  • Article
  • 04 Dec 2025
In September 2023 the Insolvency Service released its response to the consultation on the future of insolvency regulation which set out the government’s intentions on changes to legislation. We set out what we currently know about the intended changes.
INSSight: The Insolvency Service’s internal case management system explained
  • Article
  • 05 Dec 2025

The Insolvency Service has introduced a case management system (INSSight) to better integrate with insolvency practitioners’ internal and external systems, automate repetitive tasks and reduce manual data entry. Find out what it entails, including what templates to use.

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