Wednesday 13 May 2026 | The UK’s Money Laundering Regulations are being updated, with the 2026 amendments expected to come into force before the summer.
Key areas such as customer due diligence thresholds, enhanced due diligence triggers, and pooled client accounts have been refined. There are fewer automatic assumptions, greater reliance on judgement, and a stronger expectation that firms can evidence why they have taken a particular approach.
For most regulated entities, this will mean revisiting policies, adjusting monitoring thresholds, and retraining teams.
In this webinar, we provided practical insights into the changes and focused on what compliance teams need to do now to prepare for the 2026 MLR amendments.
What we covered
- The key changes in the 2026 AML amendments
- What the new thresholds and EDD rules mean in practice
- Pooled client accounts: what banks and firms now need to do
- Changes to high-risk country rules and TRS requirements
- What regulators are likely to expect from firms
- The immediate steps compliance teams should be taking now