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Stephen Pollard’s final trial
One of London’s most in-demand white-collar crime lawyers has retired. His final case was almost a lifetime in the making.
21 May 2026
SDNY, CFTC step into prediction markets enforcement with “fortuitous” case
As the prediction market industry grows, more forms of alleged manipulation will arise, and proving the specific elements of insider trading might become trickier, practitioners say.
06 May 2026
Seven things we learned from the Ultra Electronics DPA
GIR dug into the court documents underpinning the SFO’s first DPA in five years to learn more about a corporate resolution that was eight years in the making.
06 May 2026
Conflict Check: An Australian property company’s decades-long audit relationship
In the latest Conflict Check, GIR examines how long-term associations between a company and its audit firm might, as one expert put it, “soften” the “edge of challenge”.
24 April 2026
Beyond Bank Secrecy: Germany leads the way on evidence-gathering efforts from Switzerland
Exclusive research by GIR has found that Switzerland’s federal criminal court considered more disputed evidence-gathering requests from Germany than any other country in the past three years.
23 March 2026
Austrac aims to put businesses at ease as new AML regulations loom
The deputy chief of Austrac told GIR how the agency worked with various professions, including lawyers, to “set them up for success” as they prepare to become part of Australia’s regulated anti-money laundering sector in a major overhaul of illicit financing rules.
25 February 2026
UK fears revealing “blind spots” around adversaries’ use of spies-for-hire
Experts believe the government doesn’t have a handle on the problem of hostile countries exploiting London’s corporate investigations industry.
19 February 2026
UK tech enforcement quadruples as new Ofcom powers come online
The first year of enforcing the UK’s tough new Online Safety Act has seen the communications regulator focus the majority of its investigations on companies that ignore information-gathering demands.
17 February 2026
Features
Stephen Pollard’s final trial
One of London’s most in-demand white-collar crime lawyers has retired. His final case was almost a lifetime in the making.
21 May 2026
SDNY, CFTC step into prediction markets enforcement with “fortuitous” case
As the prediction market industry grows, more forms of alleged manipulation will arise, and proving the specific elements of insider trading might become trickier, practitioners say.
06 May 2026
Seven things we learned from the Ultra Electronics DPA
GIR dug into the court documents underpinning the SFO’s first DPA in five years to learn more about a corporate resolution that was eight years in the making.
06 May 2026
Conflict Check: An Australian property company’s decades-long audit relationship
In the latest Conflict Check, GIR examines how long-term associations between a company and its audit firm might, as one expert put it, “soften” the “edge of challenge”.
24 April 2026
Beyond Bank Secrecy: Germany leads the way on evidence-gathering efforts from Switzerland
Exclusive research by GIR has found that Switzerland’s federal criminal court considered more disputed evidence-gathering requests from Germany than any other country in the past three years.
23 March 2026
Austrac aims to put businesses at ease as new AML regulations loom
The deputy chief of Austrac told GIR how the agency worked with various professions, including lawyers, to “set them up for success” as they prepare to become part of Australia’s regulated anti-money laundering sector in a major overhaul of illicit financing rules.
25 February 2026
UK fears revealing “blind spots” around adversaries’ use of spies-for-hire
Experts believe the government doesn’t have a handle on the problem of hostile countries exploiting London’s corporate investigations industry.
19 February 2026
UK tech enforcement quadruples as new Ofcom powers come online
The first year of enforcing the UK’s tough new Online Safety Act has seen the communications regulator focus the majority of its investigations on companies that ignore information-gathering demands.
17 February 2026
