They said they would do this. Now they have. This week they have written to all firms caprtured by the 2017 Money Laundering Regulations requiring the COLP to sign a declaration confirming that your practice has a firm-wide money laundering risk assessment in place. The deadline for responding is 31 January 2020. Firms outside the scope of the regulations will not be written to.
The SRA website is a great resource to check on this. https://www.sra.org.uk/