The European Securities and Markets Authority is untangling one of the more persistent challenges in European financial regulation, how to make reporting simpler without losing the data regulators rely on.
Belgium’s competition watchdog has ordered AutoScout24 to reinstate the flow of sellers’ listing data to a competing platform, stepping in with interim measures it says are needed to prevent immediate harm in the country’s online car sales market.
There was a time when the challenge for compliance teams was visibility. Policies sat in binders. Codes of conduct gathered dust. Ethics, where it existed, lived more in aspiration than in practice. That problem, for the most part, has been solved.
The Serious Fraud Office has secured a £10 million settlement from Ultra Electronics Holdings, drawing a line under a years-long investigation into bribery risks tied to overseas contracts.
Germany’s financial regulator has fined flatexDEGIRO SE €1,000,000 for failing to promptly disclose inside information tied to regulatory findings at its banking subsidiary. The penalty centers on events dating back to the end of 2022, when flatexDEGIRO did not immediately inform the market about the outcome of a special inspection at flatexDEGIRO Bank. That inspection, carried out under section 44 of the German Banking Act, had identified shortcomings in the company’s business organization.
The European Parliament is urging regulators to pick up the pace in enforcing the Digital Markets Act, warning that delays, modest penalties, and rapidly evolving technologies risk undermining one of the bloc’s most consequential competition laws.
The U.S. Department of Justice has unveiled a proposed settlement with The Kroger Company, resolving allegations that the grocery chain violated the Clean Air Act by failing to properly manage leaks of ozone-depleting refrigerants at stores nationwide.