Regulation and Compliance Quarterly Update Winter 2025

Well, it’s fast approaching the end of 2025 and what a year it has been all areas of compliance. It will be interesting to see what 2026 brings! It has been so hard to keep up in terms of updates in regulation, guidance, new publications and fines for the legal sector. Not a week, or sometimes, even a day goes by without some change or update and this means we were all busy updating our policies, risk assessments and other documentation and training to ensure our firm and our people stay compliant. There’s so much to juggle! How do we keep ourselves updated? Have we missed anything along the way?

So what if you could get all of the updates in one place?

Well, now you can. This session will cover the major changes and updates in the legislation, regulations, publications and news and let you know what the supervisory bodies are up to and their latest releases. It will cover changes that have been released in the last quarter.

This will be an informative session giving you a practical guide to keeping up to date with the latest changes.

Who This Is For:

Law firm compliance professionals, COLPs and COFAs, Risk and regulatory managers, Solicitors with compliance responsibilities.

Level of Expertise:

This webinar is suitable for all levels

CPD Hours:

This live webinar provides you with 1 hour of learning.

Attendees will receive a CPD certificate upon completion of this course.

Learning Objectives

• The FCA as a single regulator for anti-money laundering and the release of the first consultation looking at what the future might look like!
• The release of the SRA AML Annual Report 24/25 – interesting reading!
• The FATF high-risk third country list is updated for the last time in 2025 – who were the movers and shakers!
• All change with the Sanctions Lists – moving to one UK sanctions list and sanctions list tool form January
• SRA has put client money on hold but only until the second half of 2026 – things you can do to prepare for its comeback
• Are you giving tax advice? All change in April 2026!
• The future – what to keep your eye on in 2026
• New publications from the SRA and the UKFIU
• Other updates in the compliance field
• Fines, fines and more fines – a round up of the latest cases and what’s been in the news