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Nigeria’s bid to overturn a “sham” $11 billion arbitral award to P&ID
30 January, 2023One of the biggest arbitral enforcement disputes kicked off in London last week, as Nigeria seeks to overturn an award worth $11.1 billion obtained by a small offshore company following…
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UK government finally commits to reforming corporate criminal liability
26 January, 2023Yesterday the government signalled it will introduce amendments on corporate criminal liability reform in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. We strongly welcome this major development on an issue…
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Is the NCA’s Financial Intelligence Unit’s first report in over two years worth the wait?
26 January, 2023A lot has happened since the NCA Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) published its last annual report in November 2020 on suspicious activity reports on money laundering. Though Russia’s 2022 invasion…
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Patchy progress towards effective AML supervision highlights the urgency of reform
17 January, 2023In the dying days of 2022, HM Treasury released two years of covid-backlogged data on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) supervision in the UK. This 2020-2022 report yields no clear picture of…
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Today’s Golden Visa statement by the Home Secretary isn’t enough
12 January, 2023While Spotlight welcomes the government’s commitment in today’s statement to Parliament that it will never again have a visa scheme based solely on wealth, we are disappointed that the full…
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#WestminsterAccounts: Transparency is not enough. We need real reform
11 January, 2023So here we go again. The Westminster Accounts is the latest scandal showing how vulnerable UK politics is to those seeking undue influence with their cheque books and how money…
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