{"id":2292,"date":"2024-08-19T19:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/simpson-thacher-to-face-uk-tribunal-over-anti-money-laundering-compliance-allegations\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T19:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:01:42","slug":"simpson-thacher-to-face-uk-tribunal-over-anti-money-laundering-compliance-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/simpson-thacher-to-face-uk-tribunal-over-anti-money-laundering-compliance-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Simpson Thacher to Face UK Tribunal Over Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Solicitors Regulation Authority has referred law firm Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in London over allegations of historic anti-money laundering compliance shortcomings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a decision published on its website today, the SRA said there is a case to answer in respect of allegations that include that \u201cthe \u2018relevant person\u2019 with ultimate responsibility for compliance with the prevailing anti-money laundering regulations\u201d failed to have firm wide risk assessments in place between 2017 and 2020, among other measures. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solicitors Regulation Authority has referred law firm Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in London over allegations of historic anti-money laundering compliance shortcomings. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[941,3026,1049,422,3027,733,734,3025],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-allegations","tag-antimoney","tag-compliance","tag-face","tag-laundering","tag-simpson","tag-thacher","tag-tribunal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}