China is of growing concern to compliance professionals on a number of fronts. From sanctions on Uyghur forced labour to supply chain disruption to warnings about China’s banks, the world’s second-largest economy is both of critical importance and an increasingly critical risk. In this episode, we look at China’s role in corporate compliance, and what companies should be aware of when doing business with or in China.

What are the big topics affecting law firms? In this special episode recorded shortly after the Law Society’s Risk and Compliance conference, Gary Yantin and Nick Henderson break down the key issues of concern for the legal industry.

In this episode, Nick Henderson and Naomi Grossman examine a compliance case that rocked the world of Credit Suisse, the venerated global investment bank and a crown jewel of Switzerland. It seems that Credit Suisse has been lurching from one scandal to the next, much of it due to their lack of serious anti-money laundering efforts. But this case is really significant because it’s the first time a Swiss bank was subject to this kind of criminal prosecution.

In November 2022 HMRC released the summary of responses from their consultation on the UK’s Mandatory Disclosure Rules (MDR). The consultation clarified that: 1. The historic lookback period will go back to 25th June 2018 (and not 29th October 2014 as originally stated). 2. Reporting will be via XML only. With UK MDR expected to come into force in the first half of 2023, we were joined by John Sandeman, HMRC’s policy official for Mandatory Disclosure Rules, who will help our listeners get to grips with the UK MDR and how it may impact your organisation.