2026 Fraud Outlook Report
Fraud detection in the AI era hbspt.forms.create({ portalId: « 20888593 », formId: « f47c76cc-3243-4be8-95df-0ae9950bcc61 », region: « na1 » }); Special edition report AU10TIX Global Identity Fraud Report Q4 2025 What’s in this report from AU10TIX: AU10TIX’s “Q4 2025 Global Identity Fraud Report” reveals how fraud detection is being redefined by AI-driven threats and quantum computing risks. This special edition tracks […]
United Kingdom: Employment Rights Bill passed and due to receive Royal Assent
Author Julia M. Wilson Julia Wilson is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Employment & Compensation team in London and co-chair of the Firm’s Workforce Redesign client solution. Julia also leads the employment data privacy practice in London. Julia advises multinational organisations on a wide range of employment and data protection matters. She is highly regarded […]
DOJ, FinCEN Reach Resolutions With Virtual Asset Trading Platform Over AML Violations
The DOJ and FinCEN reached resolutions with Paxful, a US-based virtual currency trading platform, over Bank Secrecy Act and AML violations spanning from 2015 through 2023. Roberto Gonzalez and Samuel Kleiner of Paul, Weiss examine the enforcement actions, which revealed a platform that operated for years without a compliance officer, marketed itself as not requiring […]
International: New US Executive Order Signals Heightened Antitrust Scrutiny in the Food Supply Chain Sector for Foreign-Controlled Companies
In brief President Trump has issued an Executive Order (the Order) directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch investigations into the U.S. food sector, focusing on potential price-fixing, other forms of criminal collusion, and non-criminal anticompetitive conduct. The Order creates new Food Supply Chain Security Task Forces within both […]
Top Compliance Blogs for HR Professionals in 2025
In 2025, several workplace compliance topics rose to the top, earning the most clicks, shares, and conversations among HR and compliance professionals. Here are our six most-read blog posts of the year, plus a quick look at why each one resonated during a year shaped by rapid change. The State of Workplace Harassment: Why Gen Z Deserves Special Attention […]
What’s the Situationship Between TPRM and AI in 2026?
Third‑Party Risk Management (TPRM) remains relatively immature even after 15 years, with fragmented data, inconsistent programs across industries, and diverse regulatory challenges across major markets. AI is transforming every corner of the enterprise, but here, it’s a different story. AI can’t simply be plugged into TPRM as an efficiency tool. Instead, practitioners face a new layer of […]
Colombia: Strengthening of the fight against smuggling and facilitation of smuggling — risks, prevention, and key recommendations for companies
In brief Smuggling and the facilitation of smuggling, as offenses that undermine the country’s economic and social order, represent significant risks for companies engaged in foreign trade operations in Colombia. These conducts, as defined in the Colombian Criminal Code, not only impact the national economy but may also result in serious criminal and economic consequences […]
Kindness and Compassion Drive Workplace Success
But kindness and compassion in the workplace aren’t just seasonal niceties. They’re powerful drivers of compliance. That makes December the perfect moment to ask: How can we make kindness and compassion deliberate parts of how we work in the coming year? Why Kindness and Compassion Matter Behind every compliance policy, there’s a human decision. Kindness and compassion help tip that decision in […]
How Unannounced Workplace Visits Are Forcing Companies to Rethink Immigration Compliance
A September immigration raid at a Hyundai-affiliated construction site in Georgia resulted in more than 400 arrests and delayed the plant’s opening for months, revealing how enforcement actions can cause severe operational, reputational and legal consequences beyond I-9 form accuracy. John Connolly of Guidepost Solutions examines why businesses must move from reactive compliance to proactive […]
SFO Issues Updated Guidance on Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programmes
On 26 November 2025, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) published updated Guidance on Evaluating a Corporate Compliance Programme. The new guidance replaces the previous guidance introduced in January 2020 and sets out six scenarios in which the SFO may assess an organisation’s compliance programme. Following the introduction of the “failure to prevent fraud” offence (effective […]