SRA’s AML Fines Since January 2025: What Law Firms Need to Know—and Why Estate Agents Should Sit Up Too

1. A Wave of Fines in the Solicitors Sector Since the start of the year, the SRA has significantly stepped up enforcement of anti‑money laundering rules: The core compliance failures across these cases consistently involve: 2. The SRA’s Tough Message SRA CEO Paul Philip signalled a deliberate intensification of AML scrutiny: “ratcheting up” enforcement as … Continue reading SRA’s AML Fines Since January 2025: What Law Firms Need to Know—and Why Estate Agents Should Sit Up Too