Where does Lisa Osofsky take the SFO now?
Aziz Rahman
March 9, 2020
The acquittal of three Barclays executives is certainly not the Serious Fraud Office’s finest hour. Nobody at the SFO would ever claim that to be the case.… Continue Reading
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SFO publishes new ‘internal’ guidance for evaluating compliance programs
Aziz Rahman
January 21, 2020
This month the UK Serious Fraud Office published new guidance about how it assesses the effectiveness of the companies it investigates. The SFO’s eight-page document “Evaluating Compliance Programs” arrived with very little fanfare late last week.… Continue Reading
SFO Guidance: New requirement for lawyers to ‘certify privilege’
Aziz Rahman
September 9, 2019
The Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) Corporate Co-operation Guidance has arrived in the form of a five-page document. In it, the SFO defines co-operation as “providing assistance to the SFO that goes above and beyond what the law requires” and details eleven general practices that companies should consider when preserving material and giving it to the SFO.… Continue Reading
Mixed messages from the FCA on Brexit
Aziz Rahman
May 3, 2019
The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) chief executive Andrew Baily has said that Brexit will place “considerable demands” on his organization over the next year. According to him, the complex challenge of successfully extricating the UK’s financial services industry from the European Union will place a strain on the FCA’s resources for the third year in succession.… Continue Reading