Recent findings by the Financial Conduct Authority of weak oversight of artificial intelligence by wholesale banks expose how failings generated by AI tools could develop into risks of market abuse, lawyers and experts warned.
A celebrity's failed attempt to block reporting of sexual misconduct allegations solely on grounds of suicide risk has narrowed a potentially significant new avenue for restricting press freedom, lawyers say.
A ruling by an English appeals court that sanctions do not wipe out the rights of creditors has drawn a boundary around the government's powers — though lawyers warn that the restrictions still leave those rights worth much less in practice.
Crypto privacy tools are making it harder for U.K. authorities to combat money launderers and sanctions evaders, say lawyers who warn it bodes ill for the Financial Conduct Authority's new crypto regime.
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Recent findings by the Financial Conduct Authority of weak oversight of artificial intelligence by wholesale banks expose how failings generated by AI tools could develop into risks of market abuse, lawyers and experts warned.
A celebrity's failed attempt to block reporting of sexual misconduct allegations solely on grounds of suicide risk has narrowed a potentially significant new avenue for restricting press freedom, lawyers say.
A ruling by an English appeals court that sanctions do not wipe out the rights of creditors has drawn a boundary around the government's powers — though lawyers warn that the restrictions still leave those rights worth much less in practice.
Crypto privacy tools are making it harder for U.K. authorities to combat money launderers and sanctions evaders, say lawyers who warn it bodes ill for the Financial Conduct Authority's new crypto regime.
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November 12, 2026
Seven people who HM Revenue & Customs suspected phished tax professionals for client data used to claim almost £200 million ($264.6 million) in fraudulent tax refunds were arrested in Romania on Thursday, the British tax authority said.
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November 12, 2026
The U.K. imposed new sanctions against Russia on Thursday, targeting major oil, gas and coal companies.
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November 12, 2026
A British trader was given leave on Thursday to appeal against his extradition to the United States, where federal prosecutors want him on hacking charges.
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November 12, 2026
Ireland's Central Bank said Thursday it has fined a former HealthBeacon employee €67,580 ($74,800) for selling shares in the medical technology company while possessing confidential information about supply chain problems that later sharply lowered its share price.
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November 12, 2026
A lender has sued a former property company director for £3.2 million ($4.2 million), alleging that he concealed assets when settling his liability, including by transferring land to his ex-wife to keep it beyond the lender's reach.
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November 12, 2026
A third former Post Office employee has had their conviction referred to the Court of Appeal based on evidence that the Capture accounting system could be faulty, the Criminal Cases Review Commission said Thursday.
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November 11, 2026
A director of a failed car leasing company has denied running an £87 million ($116 million) Ponzi scheme, insisting at his London fraud trial on Wednesday that his plan was to revolutionize the motor industry.
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November 11, 2026
HM Treasury officials denied on Wednesday that they had briefed lenders or their representatives about changes to the bank corporation tax surcharge before the chancellor delivered his Budget statement in October.
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November 11, 2026
Three men have been sentenced to a total of 17 years imprisonment for their roles in an attempted theft of up to £2 million ($2.65 million) in cryptocurrency, in a "sophisticated" plot involving a planned break-in at the victims' home.
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November 11, 2026
Thomson Reuters has sued the former directors of an insurance news organization for $34.5 million, claiming that the publisher of "The Insurer" inflated advertising sales before the media giant bought the outlet in 2024.
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November 10, 2026
A former civil servant has been convicted of fraud for being dishonest in job applications over his juggling of five full-time government roles, at one point simultaneously.
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November 10, 2026
An amateur trader has been handed a two-year suspended sentence by a London court for faking a £154 million ($205 million) takeover bid for a Canadian oil company in an effort to boost its share price.
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November 10, 2026
Businessman and ex-solicitor Mohamed Amersi said that the daughter of the then-Uzbekistani president was not a "bribeable person" and instead extorted funds as he denied involvement in corruption at a London trial on Tuesday.
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November 10, 2026
False instructions to lawyers, forged compliance forms and knowingly untrue witness statements helped unravel the cover stories of bankers, executives and their intermediaries in Kuwait's $1 billion pension fund corruption case.
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November 10, 2026
Switzerland's financial regulator said Tuesday that it has finalized changes to its rules against money laundering, updating requirements to reflect recent amendments to national legislation ahead of a Financial Action Task Force review.
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November 10, 2026
LetterOne, an investment group founded by Russian billionaires, told the U.K. Supreme Court on Tuesday that the government unlawfully deprived it of the market value of a broadband business by forcing its sale on national security grounds without adequate compensation.
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November 10, 2026
The Crown Prosecution Service unlawfully refused to disclose personal data requested by a man fighting extradition to the U.S., a London judge has ruled while refusing to order the agency to hand over the information.
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November 09, 2026
Business groups including the Confederation of British Industry have urged the government to keep the City of London Police force independent, warning that merging it with the Metropolitan Police could undermine specialist expertise in tackling economic crime and fraud.
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November 09, 2026
A political donor and businessman said at a London libel trial that the BBC had wrongly accused him of possibly knowingly being involved in business deals in Nepal that involved corrupt payments to secure the favor of an oligarch connected to the country's Maoist ruling party.
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November 09, 2026
The founder and former chief executive of collapsed FTSE 100 hospital operator NMC knowingly participated in a multibillion-dollar fraud, an Abu Dhabi court has ruled, setting $5.4 billion as the starting point for assessing how much they must pay.
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November 09, 2026
A financial adviser is suing his former business partner for allegedly concealing a scheme to inflate employees' salaries to help them secure mortgages before selling his stakes in the two men's businesses to the adviser for £2.5 million ($3.4 million).
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November 09, 2026
Russell Brand was sentenced on Monday to 10-and-a-half years imprisonment for rape and sexual assault, as a judge noted the actor and comedian was a "sexual predator" who showed "contempt" for his victims.
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November 06, 2026
German financier Lars Windhorst told a London court in a hearing Friday that a brokerage that his company Tennor Holding BV was ordered to pay €27 million ($30 million) could "take the keys" to Tennor's offices to enforce the debt.
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November 06, 2026
A landfill operator has sued a waste management services supplier for £6.46 million ($9 million), accusing the supplier of "gaming" the system by falsely claiming that waste it delivered qualified for lower landfill tax rates.
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November 06, 2026
The past week in London has seen Samsung sue Petrofac and its administrators, building materials giant Kingspan hit with two financial list claims by dozens of institutional investors, and Boehringer Ingelheim file a patent claim against fellow pharmaceutical company Sandoz amid ongoing conflict surrounding its empagliflozin type 2 diabetes drug.