For more than a decade, federal regulators say, PFAS left Chemours facilities in West Virginia, North Carolina, and New Jersey and entered three of the country's major rivers. On Wednesday, that alleged history of contamination produced one of the most consequential enforcement actions yet against a manufacturer of the so-called "forever chemicals."
European insurers and occupational pension funds entered 2026 from a position most financial regulators would envy. Markets lurched in response to geopolitical shocks. Trade relationships continued to shift. Investors repriced risk. Yet the core indicators supervisors watch most closely (capital, liquidity and solvency) held up remarkably well. That is what the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority's latest Financial Stability Report, published Wednesday. It is also, in many ways, the easy part of the story.
The British government is moving forward with plans to require companies importing commodities such as cocoa, palm oil, soy and rubber to demonstrate that their supply chains are not contributing to illegal deforestation, marking one of the most significant expansions of the country's environmental due diligence regime since the passage of the Environment Act.
Two privacy determinations released Thursday by the Australian Privacy Commissioner found that health service providers Medmate and Monash IVF interfered with individuals' privacy through their use of third-party tracking pixels. The decisions conclude a year-long investigation by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner into how the two companies collected information from visitors to websites offering telehealth and fertility services.
The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates has imposed a financial penalty of approximately $5.4 million (AED 20 million) on a branch of a foreign bank after examinations identified significant and repeated deficiencies in its anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, sanctions, and illegal organizations compliance framework.
The Securities and Exchange Commission spent the past several weeks figuring out how to return money to investors. The agency advanced distribution efforts in three separate enforcement matters involving United Parcel Service, American Electric Power, and Andeavor, together representing $84 million in civil penalties that the SEC intends to distribute through Fair Funds established under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
More than 51,000 ticket buyers will receive refunds after Britain's competition watchdog concluded that StubHub UK illegally withheld mandatory fees until the final stage of the checkout process, a practice regulators have spent the past year trying to stamp out across online commerce.