The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has asked a federal judge in Arizona to block the state from pursuing criminal and civil enforcement actions against companies operating prediction markets under federal oversight. The request, filed Wednesday, seeks both a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction while a broader legal challenge plays out.
On April 9, the European Commission published two new sets of rules aimed at sharpening transparency and improving how market activity is tracked across the bloc. At the same time, it opened a broader review of the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, the body tasked with making sense of that data and spotting when something isn’t right.
The Federal Trade Commission has secured a $10 million settlement with StubHub, forcing the ticketing giant to refund consumers after regulators found it failed to clearly show the true cost of tickets upfront.
The U.S. Department of Justice has quietly opened an antitrust investigation into the National Football League, turning fresh scrutiny on how America’s most powerful sports league sells its games and what that means for fans trying to watch them.
New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority has flagged ongoing weaknesses in financial reporting disclosures, even as overall standards remain high and filing timeliness shows signs of improvement.
Europe’s data protection authorities issued more than €1.145 billion in fines in 2025, reinforcing a steady trend of high-value GDPR enforcement driven largely by the bloc’s biggest regulators, according to the European Data Protection Board’s latest annual report.
Japan’s financial regulator has set out a path for how sustainability reporting will evolve from a compliance requirement into something closer to financial reporting in both structure and scrutiny. The Financial Services Agency (FSA) on January 8 published a report and accompanying roadmap detailing how companies will be required to adopt standardized sustainability disclosures, and, crucially, how those disclosures will eventually need to be independently assured.