The prevention of financial crime is a topic frequently encountered by all lawyers, especially those working in the financial services sector. Some of our lawyers have lengthy experience of working in banking and financial regulation and they know not just how these issues arise (and how to tackle them) but also managing the expectations of the regulatory authorities in terms of policy formation, monitoring and verification systems and overall corporate compliance. Coupled with our extensive knowledge of financial technology (see the section on fin-tech above) we are ideally placed to advise on the governance arrangements needed to prevent cyber security breaches and the remedial legal steps that can be taken to deal with such incidents.