As the government lays out its plans for a major expansion of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) anti-money laundering (AML) supervision responsibilities, we look at how these proposals can be strengthened.
Companies House’s long overdue crackdown on individuals that have failed to verify their identities has begun, with a flurry of warning letters (equivalent to almost one-fifth of all companies registered), but strong enforcement must follow to remove the UK’s corporate registry from kleptocrats’ and fraudsters’ toolkits.
New data on key corruption and economic crime offences in Spotlight’s enforcement tracker has revealed big increases in prosecutions across the board in 2024-25. But looking beyond the headline numbers, what story does this data really tell us about the state of anti-corruption enforcement in England and Wales?
Asset recovery – the process of tracing, freezing, seizing, managing, preserving, disposing, and returning the proceeds of crime and corruption or compensating victims of crime – lies at the heart...
On 11 December 2025, Spotlight on Corruption and the UK Home Office co-hosted a workshop to explore options for legislative reforms to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA). Held...
The submission calls for a robust ban on cryptocurrency donations which covers contributions to individual politicians as well as political parties and the emerging risks linked to politically affiliated memecoins.
The government’s lobbying review is a rare chance to fix a transparency regime that has fallen behind international standards. Our submission calls for a comprehensive lobbying register, tougher enforcement, stronger disclosure rules, and reforms to rebuild public trust in decision-making.
We are in an era of profound disillusionment in politics. Recent polling by More in Common shows that 87% of Britons have little or no trust in politicians, with public...
