The Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act in 2025

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) is reshaping the regulatory landscape for law firms, increasing responsibilities to combat economic crime, particularly fraud, and enhance corporate governance. As part of these reforms, the Act seeks to bring greater transparency and reliability to corporate structures, both within the U.K. and internationally.

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Research funding compliance with King’s College London

Andy discussed how UKRI has enhanced its approach to risk awareness, adopting a more mitigative protocol to minimise threats. This includes new principles that require more extensive due diligence, particularly when working with global partners in regions like Africa, Southern Asia, and South America. The initiative aims to protect research integrity, intellectual property, and the reputation of both the UK and institutions like King’s College London. Compliance with UKRI’s international due diligence guidelines is now essential, which includes assessing sustainable deliverables and evaluating organisations based on risk.

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Webinar: Navigating global and local AML standards

Join us for this webinar featuring Bruno Edenogie, Head of EU Compliance and Data Protection Officer at Orrick. We explore how to navigate global and local compliance standards and the complexities of building effective anti-money laundering (AML) programs. While we discuss the challenges of managing AML compliance across different jurisdictions, our Head of Legal Professionals, Nick Morgan, shares practical strategies for implementing AI technology. Nick explains how AI helps teams access broader and more nuanced data, leading to deeper insights into a client’s overall risk profile. By using AI effectively, firms can balance their approach—avoiding both over-scrutiny that wastes resources and under-scrutiny that exposes them to regulatory risks. This balanced approach is key to managing compliance across international jurisdictions.

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Webinar: Key considerations for third-party due diligence

The role of corporate compliance is to have adequate systems in place to prevent criminal behaviour and to adopt a risk-based approach. Following the US Department of Justice’s groundbreaking inclusion of AI in its most recent guidance for the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programmes, this webinar will cover what the advent of AI means for an ‘adequate system’ and how compliance teams can harness it to its full potential. What used to take days now takes minutes. Corporations gain greater insight into all their third parties, more quickly. While implementation may require some restructuring, the rewards are well worth it—for both bottom lines and transparency.

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