5/14/2025 12:00:00 AM Identity verification By Lucy Barnes The ECCTA aims to increase transparency and accuracy by introducing identity verification for individuals who are: company...
5/14/2025 12:00:00 AM Company administration and dealing with Companies House By Lucy Barnes The ECCTA introduced a new set of statutory objectives for Companies House to: ensure that any person who is required to deliver a...
10/23/2024 4:13:00 PM ECCTA: Updates to Register of Overseas Entities By Jack Lightburn Claudia Oliver The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (ECTEA) received royal assent on 15 March 2022. Part 1 and Schedule 3 (the...
10/23/2024 4:13:00 PM ECCTA: Administrative and company secretarial changes By Lucy Barnes What are the requirements? Information to be provided to Companies House In addition to the general Companies House reforms, the ECCTA...
10/23/2024 4:13:00 PM ECCTA: Economic crimes By Hannah Ford James Evison What are the requirements? Failure to prevent fraudThe ECCTA creates a new offence of failing to prevent fraud, intended to hold large...
10/23/2024 4:12:00 PM ECCTA: Reforms to Companies House By Joe Bedford Lucy Barnes What are the requirements? The ECCTA introduced a new set of statutory objectives for Companies House to: ensure that those required to...
10/23/2024 4:12:00 PM ECCTA: Identity verification regime and authorised corporate service providers By Lucy Barnes What are the requirements? The ECCTA aims to increase transparency and accuracy by introducing identity verification for: all new and...
10/23/2024 4:12:00 PM Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023: An overview By Catherine Sellars The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) embodies the culmination of governmental consultations in 2019 and 2020; a...
7/8/2024 4:52:00 PM Security release filings, a rogue filer and the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act By Matthew Padian Joanna Charter News broke earlier this year that roughly 800 security release filings, affecting 190 companies, had been fraudulently filed at Companies...
12/7/2023 3:50:00 PM The new corporate criminal offence: "Failure to Prevent Fraud" By Hannah Ford James Evison In this video we cover the UK’s new corporate criminal offence: Failure to Prevent Fraud under the Economic Crime and Corporate...
11/27/2023 12:17:00 PM New identification principle makes it easier to prosecute corporates for crimes By Kathryn Saunders Companies and partnerships are increasingly being used to commit crime. However, applying the criminal law to companies is difficult to...
11/27/2023 11:25:00 AM Businesses at risk of unlimited fines if they fail to prevent their employees committing fraud By Hannah Ford The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill is soon expected to be passed into law. It creates a new corporate offence of "Failure...