https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/What is new, improved and fixed in PracticeGuard, the AML compliance product for UK accountancy practices, listed by month in plain English. Updated 4 November 2026.en-gbhttps://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11-what-we-found-in-your-documentsTue, 03 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000After you upload your risk assessment, policies or training log, the pack lists where the document no longer matches the rules as they stand: the term “high-risk third country”, which the regulations no longer use; a threshold in euros rather than sterling; no proliferation financing risk assessment; enhanced due diligence triggers in the old wording; a training log whose latest date is more than 12 months old; a nominated officer whose name could not be found; the 2020 national risk assessment cited. Each finding quotes the passage and the page where there is one. It is not a review of the whole document.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11-your-client-list-countedTue, 03 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000Upload your client list as a spreadsheet or CSV and the pack counts it by code: clients, nationalities, countries and services. No model reads it. The file and the counts are kept, as your other uploads are, and no row is copied into your answers, logged or sent to anyone.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11-passages-in-your-own-wordsTue, 03 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000Your stated risk appetite, and your stated approach to enhanced due diligence and to ongoing monitoring, are copied from your own documents for you to keep as written, edit, drop, or replace with a suggested rewrite drafted when you ask. A suggestion is used only when you press Adopt, and the documents note who adopted it and when.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11-a-finished-example-of-the-packTue, 03 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000A finished example for a fictitious practice is published at /aml-return-pack/sample/: the ACCA return sheet and the return preparation checklist in full, and excerpts of the other six documents, so you can see how the pack is set out before you start.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11-long-documents-read-wholeTue, 03 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000A sentence that runs over two lines of a PDF is now read as one sentence, so the document check no longer misses a point it should raise. If reading takes too long, “Try again” reads the file you already uploaded.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11-easier-on-a-phoneSun, 01 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000If you came for the AML return pack, PracticeGuard opens on the pack, shows its price separately from the Verify trial, saves your typed answers as you go and reopens where you left off. Your documents are easy to read on a phone before you sign them, and a sole practitioner can sign as principal and MLRO.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11-signing-refreshes-the-documents-that-depend-on-itSun, 01 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000Signing your firm-wide risk assessment now refreshes the documents that refer to it instead of marking them out of date, and a signed document no longer tells you to review the document you have just adopted.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11-what-a-check-is-said-plainlyTue, 03 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000The website now describes a client check as the identity evidence and the sanctions and PEP screening for your file, with the verification decision yours.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-11-the-payment-page-shows-practiceguardMon, 02 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000The payment page now shows practiceguard.uk and the PracticeGuard icon, and emails and the welcome page address your practice by its everyday name.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10-seven-aml-documents-from-one-interviewFri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000Answer about 20 minutes of questions about your practice, with your facts to hand, and PracticeGuard writes seven documents from your answers: the firm-wide risk assessment, with its own proliferation financing section; the AML policies, controls and procedures; an internal suspicious-activity report form and register; an ongoing-monitoring checklist; an MLRO review worksheet; a training register; and a return preparation checklist. Where a control is not in place yet, the document says so and gives you the action.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10-a-return-sheet-for-acca-icaew-aat-and-hmrcFri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000The same answers are laid out row by row for your supervisor: ACCA's 2026/27 AML annual return, ICAEW's annual return, AAT's AML annual firm return or HMRC's annual declaration, with a Copy button on each answer. Where your answers cannot decide a row, it says "Not held" and why, so nothing is guessed. You file the return yourself; PracticeGuard does not file it for you.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10-upload-the-documents-you-already-haveFri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000Upload your current firm-wide risk assessment, AML policies or training log as a PDF, Word (.docx) or text file. PracticeGuard shows the answers it suggests, with the exact words it read, and nothing becomes an answer until you confirm it.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10-adopt-and-sign-your-documentsSat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000The practice owner or your designated MLRO can adopt and sign the documents in PracticeGuard (the return checklist is a working list and is not signed). The signed PDF records who signed, their role, the date, the version and the document's SHA-256 hash. Once your firm-wide risk assessment or policies are signed, the return sheet answers that question with ACCA's "Yes - I have conducted it once", and an answer you type afterwards always stands. If you change an answer, the document is marked out of date and needs generating and signing again.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10-buy-the-aml-return-pack-with-or-without-verifySat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000The AML return pack is £149 + VAT a year, bought on its own or with Verify. You can answer the questions and see the first page of your risk assessment before you buy; reading, downloading and signing the documents come with the AML return pack.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10-an-aml-diaryFri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000The diary lists the reviews, training and returns your AML duties need, when each is next due, and a dated record of when each was done. A signed risk assessment or policies document counts as that document's latest review. The diary comes with Verify.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10-the-inspection-ready-packFri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000One download of what an AML inspector asks to see that PracticeGuard holds: your documents, your client due diligence checks, the suspicious activity report register (never a client name), training and the diary. It says plainly when it is not yet ready to hand over, and you can download it from the return sheet on any supervisor's tab. It comes with Verify; the text of your documents is included when you have the AML return pack.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10-fewer-questions-if-you-work-on-your-ownSat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000If your practice has no other partners, staff or sub-contractors, the interview answers the staff and MLRO questions from that instead of asking them. Choosing that answer asks you to confirm first if it would remove answers you had already given.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10-a-clearer-print-designSat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000Your AML documents print with page numbers, a running header and footer, clear tables, quotations set apart from your own statements, and landscape pages for the checklists and the training register.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10-start-a-client-check-from-staffologyMon, 12 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000If you run payroll in Staffology, you can start a client ID check from your Staffology client list, next to your Xero contacts. The Staffology connection is in test.https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10https://practiceguard.uk/changelog/#2026-10-no-penalty-information-on-practice-pagesFri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000The public page for each accountancy practice no longer shows HMRC penalty information. The pages show public-register facts only.