The Czech Republic’s competition authority has upheld approximately $13.4 million (CZK 279.152 million) in fines against three meal voucher issuers, bringing the regulator’s long-running case over a cartel that operated for more than 14 years to a close.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority imposed licence conditions on Bendigo Bank after an independent review found weaknesses in non-financial risk management spread across the organization, including shortcomings in governance, accountability, compliance management and risk oversight. Some had persisted through years of remediation.
Amazon.com has agreed to pay a $2.25 million civil penalty to resolve allegations that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by failing to give identity theft victims requested records of transactions involving people believed to have fraudulently used their identification. In other cases, according to the government, Amazon provided the records too late.
Financial institutions flagged nearly $5 billion in suspicious activity potentially connected to human smuggling between 2023 and 2025, according to an analysis released Thursday by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. FinCEN examined 67,540 Bank Secrecy Act reports from the three-year period, looking for the financial patterns that appeared repeatedly around suspected smuggling activity.
Uber Freight says its logistics business is investigating a cybersecurity incident after the hacking and extortion group Helix claimed it had stolen data from the company, according to Reuters, which first reported the incident. An Uber Freight spokesperson told Reuters there had been no impact on business operations and that its systems were operating normally.
A federal court has entered a stipulated order requiring RentGrow to pay a $2.25 million civil penalty and accept an injunction to resolve allegations that its tenant-screening practices violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The Federal Trade Commission investigated the case and referred it to the department.
The European Union’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, known as the PPWR, began to apply across the bloc on Aug. 12, bringing with it restrictions on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in food-contact packaging. Packaging containing PFAS above limits set by the regulation can no longer be placed on the EU market.