Rachel Wolcott
Rachel Wolcott is a respected financial journalist and podcaster with a reputation for breaking news and investigative work.
Rachel Wolcott is a respected financial journalist, author and podcaster who brings her reputation for breaking news and investigative work to the Founding Editor role at Compliance Corylated.
Most recently as Senior Editor at Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence, Rachel has specialised in areas including the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Brexit-related financial service policy change, regulatory reporting, financial crime, market infrastructure, and cryptocurrency.
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72 articles
Financial Crime
KYC/AML at a tipping point as US weighs reform, firms opt for light-touch checks
Know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) efforts are at a tipping point as the United States considers Banking Secrecy Act...
By
Rachel Wolcott
16th July 2025

Enforcement Actions
FCA hails Korfuzi siblings’ long insider dealing sentences
The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) chief criminal counsel hailed custodial sentences passed on Redinel and Oerta Korfuzi at Southwark...
By
Rachel Wolcott
9th July 2025

Conduct & Culture
FCA’s new harassment and bullying rule expands possibility for individual bans
The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new harassment and bullying rules introduce the possibility of the regulator banning more individuals...
By
Rachel Wolcott
8th July 2025

Risk Management
The NepoPep: Sons of Duma deputy and UK Conservative party donor run German property businesses
A sanctioned deputy of the Russian Federation’s Duma, and a Russian businessman and UK Conservative party donor have a connection...
By
Rachel Wolcott
27th June 2025

Americas
The NepoPEP: Alleged Russian gangster’s son’s US property company
The Russian Gen-Z money launderer jailed in 2024 for his role in cash to crypto money laundering scheme, is connected...
By
Rachel Wolcott
26th June 2025

Financial Crime
Wealthy Gen Z Russian laundered money in luxury properties, claimed ADHD caused offending
On December 4, 2024, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), together with the United Arab Emirates government, the US Drug...
By
Rachel Wolcott
25th June 2025

Financial Crime
The privileged, privately educated Russian who ran a cash-to-crypto MLAAS for other wealthy Russians and drug traffickers
Semen Kuksov, son of Vladimir Kuksov, former chairman of AKROS, a leading Russian oil field service company, is one of...
By
Rachel Wolcott
24th June 2025

Financial Crime
Golden youth: The new face of Russian money laundering and sanctions evasion
The new face of Russian money laundering and sanctions evasion is much younger, highly educated, multilingual, and tech savvy–the golden...
By
Rachel Wolcott
23rd June 2025

Europe, Middle East, Africa
New EMIR data quality indicators boost EU trade reporting supervision
A new set of data quality indicators for the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) will give a further boost to...
By
Rachel Wolcott
19th June 2025

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