Topic: Data sharing

The GIR editorial team is taking a break from regular news briefings over the next couple of weeks. We will be back on 3 January. In the meantime, please enjoy this selection of some of our favourite and most-read stories. Happy holidays!

18 December 2022

Featured in In-house

The head of the DOJ’s fraud section said in-house lawyers should make the most of their resources when introducing data analytics into their company’s compliance programme, and indicated that more enforcement actions and policy changes are on the horizon.

01 December 2022

The US Justice Department has accused Quadrant Magnetic and three of its top executives of sharing sensitive military data with a Chinese company.

10 November 2022

Google has signed a “first-of-its-kind” agreement with the Justice Department over the loss of responsive data while the parties litigated the reach of a 2016 search warrant.

26 October 2022

Switzerland’s highest court has given Geneva prosecutors the go-ahead to send evidence requested by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office as part of its investigation into Kazakh mining company ENRC, despite objections filed over the SFO’s conduct in the case in the UK.

11 October 2022

Lawyers expressed both optimism and scepticism about the various new provisions in the UK government’s latest economic crime bill, set to give more powers to the country’s authorities and enable information sharing among businesses.

29 September 2022

The US will return $686,000 of illicitly obtained money to the Peruvian government after seizing the funds from former president Alejandro Celestino Toledo.

01 September 2022

Featured in Investigator's Guide to Germany

Germany is set to create a new financial crime agency, amid criticism from a global anti-money laundering body that the country lacks coordination in its approach to investigations and enforcement of financial crime.

26 August 2022

UK practitioners condemned the UK’s anti-fraud watchdog for the “basic” failures described in recent reviews of the agency and say the reports provide an urgent opportunity for learning and reflection by the SFO and the government.

28 July 2022

UK bank Barclays has agreed to an in-principle $200 million settlement with the SEC and the CFTC over the unauthorised use of personal messaging services by its employees.

28 July 2022