{"id":455470,"date":"2026-03-03T14:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455470\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:45:17","slug":"latest-uk-professional-bodies-lack-the-teeth-to-enforce-aml-rules-warns-fca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455470\/","title":{"rendered":"LATEST: UK professional bodies \u2018lack the teeth\u2019 to enforce AML rules, warns FCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>UK professional body supervisors \u201clack the teeth\u201d to deter firms from breaching AML rules, the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) has warned.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment comes in the latest report from the Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision (OPBAS), which sits within the regulator.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/phone-tablet-desktop.png\" alt=\"AML Intelligence\"\/><br \/>\nSubscribe now to have unlimited access<\/p>\n<p class=\"amlpmp-content-message__description\">With our membership subscription, you will have unlimited access to the AML Intelligence site, updated daily with the latest analysis, opinion, and breaking news across the sector, newsletter delivered twice per week, access to our Global Bank Fines &amp; Penalties database, free access to Boardroom Series and more!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/membership-account\/membership-levels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View subscription options<\/a><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If you have an account, log in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent UK professional body supervisors \u201clack the teeth\u201d to deter firms from breaching AML&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66258,59,57,58,50,164351,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-fca","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-opbas","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}