Worldwide: White Collar Crime, Anti-Corruption & Fraud

The decision also demonstrates that a party may, in appropriate circumstances, be bound by the factual findings made in earlier proceedings to which it was not a party.

In England and Wales, the ability to set aside judgments obtained by fraud reflects the principle articulated in the 70-year-old decision...

Paid advertising continues to underpin the commercial model of major search and social media platforms. Yet the scale of fraud and unlawful financial promotions within this ecosystem...

To give regulated firms the confidence and ability to share information, the provisions disapply both obligations of confidentiality and civil liability when a firm uses the new information sharing gateways. In practical terms, this means that a regulated firm sharing customer information with another regulated firm under these provisions would have a defence to a breach of confidence claim or other civil action from the customer concerned.

UK financial regulators are signaling a fundamental shift in cyber-security oversight as 2026 marks the convergence of new operational incident reporting requirements, critical third-party provider designations, and the Network and Information Systems Bill. With cyber attacks increasing in frequency and over 40% involving third-party providers, firms face heightened expectations to demonstrate not just documented controls, but credible...

In March 2026, the UK Government published its Fraud Strategy 2026–2029, part of a broader economic-crime policy package building on the Economic Crime Plan 2 (March 2023) and the Anti-Corruption Strategy, published in December 2025.

On 26 November 2025, the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published guidance on ‘when, why and how'[1] it will evaluate corporate compliance programmes (the Compliance Guidance).

The UK continues to strengthen its approach to white collar crime and corporate investigations, with significant legal and regulatory reforms introduced in 2025 and further changes anticipated.

The European Union (EU) has added Russia to its list of countries that pose a high risk of money laundering and financing of terrorism - an action commonly referred to as blacklisting.