Italy’s competition regulator has opened two investigations into major players in the cosmetics sector, examining whether marketing practices may have encouraged children and adolescents to use products designed for adults.
The Federal Court has ordered Binance’s Australian derivatives arm to pay a $6.5 million penalty (AUD $10 million) after widespread failures in its client onboarding processes exposed hundreds of retail investors to high-risk crypto products.
Germany’s financial regulator, BaFin, has fined Barclays €1.65 million after identifying repeated failures to meet disclosure requirements designed to keep capital markets transparent.
In their spring 2026 risk update, the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, ESMA, and EIOPA) drew a line between two forces shaping the current environment—geopolitical tensions that refuse to ease, and a private finance market that has grown faster than the visibility around it.
A decade after regulators first put children’s online privacy under the microscope, a new global sweep suggests the landscape has shifted, but not necessarily in ways that reduce risk.
An Australian court has handed down roughly $3.9 million (AUD $6 million) in penalties against oil and gas services firm Qteq Pty Ltd and its executive chairman Simon Ashton, in a case that makes one point unmistakably clear. You do not need to succeed in forming a cartel to face serious consequences.
A surge in energy prices tied to the war in the Middle East is beginning to filter into the Dutch economy, raising inflation and complicating the outlook for growth at a moment when the margin for error is already thin.