2024
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Free Customer and Object Due Diligence Webinar for AMPs
- April 23, 2024
- Posted by: FCS Compliance
- Category: Art Market, Promotion
No CommentsFree webinar for Art Market Participants: Customer and Object Due Diligence – Managing Risk and Criminal Liability Brought to you by FCS Compliance, working in partnership with The Art Loss Register Join us on Monday 20 May – 5pm – 6pm (BST) About the webinar: Due Diligence is a means to uncover risks. Being
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Meet Stephen Williamson – Senior AML Consultant, FCS Compliance
- April 22, 2024
- Posted by: FCS Compliance
- Category: Blog
In this interview, FCS PR Director, Alison Blease introduces you to Stephen Williamson (MICA, Dip – AML), Senior AML Consultant at FCS Compliance. Dated: April 2024 AB: I’m joined today by Stephen (Steve) Williamson, who joined FCS in October 2023. Steve comes from a financial background. He’s worked for and with banks investigating Anti-Money Laundering
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Particular Art Market Vulnerabilities to Money Laundering
- April 22, 2024
- Posted by: FCS Compliance
- Category: Art Market, News
Particular Art Market Vulnerabilities to Money Laundering Written by Rena Neville, Head of FCS Compliance – Art Division The art market is particularly vulnerable to money laundering abuse. Cases in France and the US illustrate some of these risks; the same risks that had been previously identified by the UK’s National Risk Assessment Report. In
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Amber Alerts for Art Storage
- April 22, 2024
- Posted by: FCS Compliance
- Category: Art Market, News
Amber Alerts for Art Storage Written by Rena Neville, Head of FCS Compliance – Art Division Are you an art market participant (AMP) storing works of art for the short or long term? If so, your obligations to proactively monitor and report suspicious activity have become much clearer since the UK’s National Economic Crime Centre
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HMRC issue over £1.6m in fines to estate agents
- April 11, 2024
- Posted by: FCS Compliance
- Category: News, Property Market
HMRC issue over £1.6m in fines to estate agents for failing to register for AML supervision. Press release written by Alison Blease, Director PR, FCS Compliance and Malcolm Driscoll, Lead AML Consultant, FCS Compliance. HMRC has announced (28 March 2024) that 254 estate agency businesses have been fined a total of over £1.6m for failing
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Economic Crime Levy Increased for Largest UK AMPs
- April 10, 2024
- Posted by: FCS Compliance
- Category: Art Market, News
Economic Crime Levy Increased for Largest UK Art Market Participants (AMPs) Written by Rena Neville, Head of FCS Compliance – Art Division If you are an art market participant (AMP) with a ‘very large revenue’ as defined by the UK Government, then you need to be aware that HMG has increased the economic crime levy
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Latest Fines From HMRC Are Impacting EABs
- January 24, 2024
- Posted by: FCS Compliance
- Category: News, Property Market
Latest Fines From HMRC Are Impacting EABsWritten by Caroline Walters AICA, Director of Operations, FCS Compliance In October 2023, HMRC updated its list of Estate Agency Businesses (EABs) who have fallen short of meeting their Anti-Money Laundering (AML) obligations. The vast majority, of the approximately 70 plus EABs that have been fined, failed to register
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Update From The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – October 2023
- January 24, 2024
- Posted by: FCS Compliance
- Category: Art Market, News, Property Market
Update From The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – October 2023Written by Suzanne White AICA Cert (KYC/CDD), Senior AML Consultant – FCS Compliance In the international fight against money laundering The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) identifies jurisdictions with weak measures in place to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. They issue two documents 3
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Latest Fines From HMRC Are Impacting AMPs
- January 24, 2024
- Posted by: FCS Compliance
- Category: Art Market, News
Latest Fines From HMRC Are Impacting AMPsWritten by Rena Neville, Head of FCS Compliance – Art Division In October 2023, HMRC updated its list of Art Market Participants (AMPs) who have fallen short of meeting their Anti-Money Laundering (AML) obligations. The vast majority of the approximately 30 AMPs that have been fined failed to register
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Arrests made across the Northwest and London in an NCA investigation…
- January 24, 2024
- Posted by: FCS Compliance
- Category: Blog, News, Property Market
Five men have been arrested across the Northwest and London in an NCA investigation linked to property investment fraud and money launderingWritten by Caroline Walters AICA, Director of Operations, FCS Compliance Two of the big challenges facing the property industry right now are fraud and money laundering. Money laundering and fraudulent activities are seldom discussed