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ICA has launched practical AI training for compliance professionals worldwide. The programme focuses on governance, risk, and regulated use cases, with pilot access to AI compliance tools.
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Making Tax Digital is reshaping how creatives manage tax today. Accountants say the April 2026 rollout is heightening anxiety around admin, software costs, deadlines, and mistakes for self-employed creative workers.
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Britain has opened consultations on tougher limits for workplace NDAs. Ministers are testing wider protections on harassment and discrimination settlements, including adviser sign-off, disclosure rights, and whether agency staff, secondees, and some self-employed people should also be covered.
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Tradespeople face fresh tax admin as living costs climb further. Tradesman Saver says many sole traders still handle their own accounts, even as Making Tax Digital brings quarterly updates and digital record-keeping into scope for more taxpayers.
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Treasury faces a pre-action challenge over Motability scheme changes today. The proposed judicial review targets Budget-era policy changes that will cut mileage allowances and raise excess-mileage charges for new orders from July, framing the issue as one of equality, independence, and lawful decision-making.
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Ministers tighten payment rules for large business buyers today. Proposed reforms would cap terms at 60 days, mandate interest on overdue invoices, expand enforcement powers, and bring payment performance closer to board scrutiny, though the measures still require legislation and some of the most significant changes would not take effect before 2027.
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Napier AI has launched a new AML investigation support capability. Insights AI is designed to give analysts clearer behavioural explanations inside transaction monitoring workflows after sandbox testing with the FCA.
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Peers urge ministers to reject opt-out AI copyright rules now. A Lords committee says licensed, transparent training data would better support creators, investment, and responsible model development, while warning that weaker copyright protections could stall UK licensing markets and deepen reliance on opaque overseas systems.
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UK SMEs are leaning on AI, and disputes are rising. A dispute resolution lawyer says ‘almost right’ outputs and jurisdictional blind spots can harden positions and inflate costs.
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Federal judge halts expanded US merger disclosure requirements. A Texas court has blocked a rule that would have significantly broadened the information companies must provide in US merger filings, marking a setback for federal antitrust regulators and creating fresh uncertainty around the future direction of disclosure reform.