Barclays is in hot water with the SFO over a conspiracy (code-named Cadmium) to engage in illegal lending with Qatar at the height of the financial crisis.
Neil Hodge
Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal issues for a wide range of publications in the United Kingdom and United States.
Ireland takes baby steps toward protecting whistleblowers
No country has a perfect record when it comes to protecting whistleblowers, but Ireland is trying to take steps in the right direction, even if progress remains uneven.
Cruel Britannia? U.K. grapples with modern slavery in its own backyard
There is far more modern slavery in the United Kingdom than one might think, but regulatory efforts have led to a sharp rise in referrals, awareness, and detection of forced labour.
Grenfell Tower offers grim reminder of third-party risk
Companies may need to audit how their products are used if they want to avoid being tainted by association with future disasters.
The U.K. Criminal Finances Act seeks to stamp out corporate tax evasion
The forthcoming Criminal Finances Bill would pose potentially limitless liability for any company in the United Kingdom that is connected to a host of tax evasion-related offenses. But will this legislation actually accomplish much of anything?
The U.K. election: Another fine mess
Theresa May was supposed to thrash Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn in the recent election and strengthen her mandate for the Brexit negotiations. She failed on both counts, making Brexit more complicated than before.
Ireland’s historic banking trial ends in epic failure
Ireland’s long-running criminal trial against ex-Anglo Irish Bank Chief Sean FitzPatrick ends in acquittal due to prosecutorial incompetence.
Reform on the horizon, as U.K. preps for next general election
As U.K. citizens are headed to the polls for the fourth time in four years, the country is headed toward significant corporate governance reforms.
SocGen and Libya bribery settlement
A look at the recent billion-dollar, out-of-court settlement between French banking group Socie´te´ Ge´ne´rale and Libya’s sovereign wealth fund.
Artificial intelligence and the financial services sector
Across financial services, the allure of greater compliance efficiency at markedly lower cost makes investing in regulatory technology an easy sell.
