Nearly a third of estate agents in the United Kingdom have yet to affirm with their regulator that they have implemented anti-money laundering programs a year after the deadline to do so. While just under 6,600 estate agents-including residential and commercial estate agencies, relocation agents and property location services-have registered with the U.K.'s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) since a January 2010 deadline, at least 3,000 of the businesses have yet to do so, the organization said in a statement to Compliance Advantage/Moneylaundering.com Friday. The agency is "still working to identify" the companies that need to register, said OFT press...
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