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On 3 April 2013, the Government sent the Council of State the text of the Draft Bill of the Basic Law amending Basic Law 10/1995, of 23 November, on the Criminal Code so that the latter can prepare its mandatory report, meaning that the Law may be enacted within...

Con fecha 3 de abril de 2013, el gobierno ha remitido al Consejo de Estado, para su preceptivo informe, el texto de un Anteproyecto de Ley Orgánica por la que se modifica la Ley Orgánica 10/1995, de 23 de noviembre, del Código Penal y que,...

 We launched Russia Update last year to provide clients with a single guide to major legal and market developments in Russia. In this periodical publication, we will alert you to key legal changes as well as news highlights from the business sectors which...

With effect from 1 January 2013, Federal Law No. 273-FZ "On Preventing Corruption" (the "Anti-corruption Law") was amended to introduce requirements that companies implement anti-corruption measures. Article 13.3 of the Anti-corruption Law...

This week at the UK regulators is a weekly alerter providing views on the publications issued by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority during the last week. It provides a quick way to keep up to speed with what is going on in...

FATF has upgraded Thailand's status from the "dark-grey list" of non-cooperative jurisdictions to the "grey list" of on-going improvement jurisdictions. 

Rudyard Kipling’s description of the land of Burma in 1898 aptly describes the landscape of US sanctions on the country 115 years later. Those sanctions, imposed since 1988, have been lifted, suspended, and waived over the last year in a systematic effort...

In order to comply with the international standards set out by the Financial Action Task Force ("FATF"), the Thai Parliament passed an amendment to the Anti-money Laundering Act and introduced a counter terrorist financing Act. These measures aim to...

In the recent case of Stone v National Westminster Bank, [2013] EWHC 208 (Ch) a claim was brought against the Bank by investors who had been defrauded in a Ponzi scheme.  One of the issues was whether or not the Bank had done enough to monitor transactions...

The European Commission has released the text of draft legislation to update the European anti-money laundering ("AML") and counter-terrorism financing ("CTF") framework. It has issued legislative proposals for the Fourth Money Laundering...