South Korea’s Financial Services Commission is preparing to dramatically expand financial incentives for whistleblowers, scrapping long-standing payout caps and tying rewards directly to the scale of illicit gains recovered in market manipulation and accounting fraud cases.
Speaking at The Economist’s Antitrust Summit 2026, Sarah Cardell did not pretend the ground beneath competition policy is steady. A year ago, the global economic order still felt strained but familiar. Today, she suggested, it feels fundamentally unsettled.
Wynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was stolen in a cyber incident attributed to the cybercrime group ShinyHunters, after the company briefly appeared on the group’s data leak website. As reported by SecurityWeek, the Las Vegas-based casino and hotel operator acknowledged that “an unauthorized third party acquired certain employee data.”
Walmart has agreed to a $100 million judgment to settle allegations that it misled gig workers about how much they would earn delivering orders through its Spark Driver platform, closing out a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission and 11 states.
In its Supervisory Priorities for 2026, the Malta Financial Services Authority outlines a roadmap that leans heavily into financial crime compliance and consumer protection, while continuing to track digital transformation and cross-border risks. The document reflects a regulator balancing two pressures at once: keeping pace with sweeping EU reforms and reinforcing domestic standards across a diverse financial services landscape.
Poland’s data protection authority has fined DPD Polska more than $2.75 million (over PLN 11 million) after finding serious failures in how the courier company structured its relationships with external carriers and authorized staff to handle personal data.
Sweden’s financial watchdog is preparing for a larger role in the age of AI. In its formal response to the government inquiry Adaptations to the AI Regulation, Finansinspektionen (FI) showed clear support for taking on responsibility as the market surveillance authority for the financial sector under the EU AI Act. It also backed proposals that would give it a defined role in innovation-promoting measures, including AI regulatory sandboxes.