Spain’s competition watchdog, the CNMC, has fined ICON €1.2 million and barred it from public-sector contracts for five months, concluding that the company ran a long-standing strategy to tightly control prices and commercial conditions in the professional hairdressing products market.
A new guidance brochure, published on 9 January 2026, has been developed by the Swedish Coordinating Body for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism, working alongside the Swedish Police Authority, the Financial Intelligence Unit, the Swedish Security Service, and Sweden’s financial watchdog. Its aim is to help providers of money transfer services understand how their businesses are being exploited and what they are expected to do about it.
There’s a certain kind of growth story you see all the time in digital media. Big launches. Loud claims. Paid distribution quietly doing most of the work behind the scenes. This isn’t that story. What started as a small, independent experiment has, in a remarkably short period of time, turned into something far more consequential: a place where governance, risk, and compliance professionals actually come back, not because they’re chased by algorithms, but because the content respects their time and intelligence.
Federal Trade Commission officials are seeking information from 20 universities as part of a new inquiry into whether sports agents working with student athletes are complying with federal requirements designed to protect those athletes.
The Malta Financial Services Authority has launched a revised regulatory regime for sponsors, marking a significant step in its broader efforts to strengthen Malta’s capital markets framework. The new regime became applicable on 1 January 2026 and delivers Pillar III of the MFSA’s Capital Markets Strategy, which is focused on reinforcing the regulatory environment governing sponsors operating on the local regulated market.
The Dubai Financial Services Authority has brought a revised Crypto Token regulatory framework into force in the Dubai International Financial Centre, marking the most significant update to its digital assets regime since it was first introduced in 2022.
The European Commission recently released its Guidelines under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, a framework that has been in force since mid-2023 but has left many companies guessing how aggressively it would be enforced in practice. The new document does not change the law. Instead, it offers a clearer picture of how the Commission intends to use it.