AML – Financial Crime Compliance

Financial Crime is a top 7 priority of the FCA and, as such, enabling compliance is high on the list of initiatives for financial services firms in the U.K. To complicate matters, firms have two sets of regulations to comply with:

• Money Laundering Regulations 2007, owned by the HM Treasury
• Additional oversight from the FCA in the form of a Financial Crime Guide developed from thematic reviews, the Systematic Anti-Money Laundering Programme (SAMLP) for some banks, and regular AML inspections for all others