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SearchFlow responds to calls for greater reporting of suspicious activities, as part of crackdown on money laundering
SearchFlow – the UK’s leading provider of search solutions and legal reports – is urging property lawyers to make Anti-Money Laundering searches an automatic step of the due diligence process, in a bid to help combat related risks in the property transaction process.
ICO records four times more data breaches since GDPR
In the year since GDPR came into effect on 25th May 2018, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has logged in excess of 14,000 data breaches – more than four times that during the previous year.
Future Climate Info extends COPSO executive membership commitment
Innovative environmental reports provider to play deeper role in the only lender-approved data and compliance standard for property transactions.
Quill’s costs, functionality and longevity win over Burt Brill & Cardens
Burt Brill & Cardens Limited is the latest law firm to sign up to Quill’s Interactive legal accounting software. With a rigid timeframe for implementation, dictated by the end-of-contract date for its legacy legal accounts system, the practice went live in April 2019.
Tech supports developers’ smart use of land, says Search Acumen
Not only was it a strong year of house building in 2017/18 with more than 160,000 homes completed in England, but as today’s Land Use Change Statistics reveal, it was a smarter year as developers built 3,300 more homes on previously undeveloped land compared to 2016/17.
Groundsure statement regarding CoPSO membership
Groundsure is today announcing its intention to play a leading role in the launch of a new trade body for the property search and property data due diligence industry.
Thames Water Property Searches Commercial Conveyancing CPD
According to reports, commercial property is expected to rebound once the uncertainty surrounding Brexit subsides. A wealth of domestic and overseas investors are poised to advance their plans once a clear picture of the UK’s future is formed.
Terrafirma feature on BBC’s The One Show
Terrafirma’s CEO and Founder, Tom Backhouse, recently travelled to St Albans to film with BBC The One Show. Using new and emerging technologies, such as satellite observation and data modelling, Terrafirma can peel back time, and the ground, to reveal what lies beneath.
Top 200 conveyancers seize record market share as active firms drop below 4,000
The consolidation of the conveyancing market continues as the top 200 conveyancing firms now control more of the market (39%) than ever before, according to the Q1 2019 edition of the Conveyancing Market Tracker from Search Acumen, the property data insight and technology provider.
Don’t miss out! Free will registration month ends on friday this week
The campaign has been successful with over 150,000 Wills being registered and committed to be registered by legal professionals who write Wills and members of the public. This adds to the 8 million Will Registrations already in the National Will Register system.
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The cost of systemic failure and childbirth injuries
Recent reports show that the NHS has paid almost £3.5bn in medical claims around childbirth injuries over the past six years.
Mazur: when regulators make simple things complicated
What the last six months have shown is that supervision cannot be treated as a background compliance obligation quietly managed somewhere in a firm’s operational processes.
How unstoppable AI is reshaping UK legal practice
At a time when most technology innovation still flows from the US and China, UK lawtech is attracting growing international attention and capital.
