Australia’s financial intelligence regulator has removed 45 remittance and virtual asset businesses from its registers over the past year, an unusually broad sweep through parts of the financial system where money can move quickly, cross borders easily and, when controls fail, become difficult to follow.
Global payment processor Nuvei has agreed to pay $4.85 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it provided payment services to merchants it knew or should have known were engaged in deceptive activity, including tech-support scams targeting U.S. consumers.
The UK’s Financial Reporting Council set out a revised approach to regulation Thursday that places greater emphasis on economic growth, proportionate oversight and earlier engagement with firms, as the regulator looks to make its supervision more responsive without loosening standards across audit, corporate reporting and governance.
Poland’s competition and consumer protection authority is examining whether some of the world’s largest consumer-goods manufacturers are doing enough to tell shoppers when that happens. The President of UOKiK has opened preliminary investigations involving Danone, Mondelez, Nestlé and Unilever, focusing on products whose weight, volume or quantity has been reduced while the packaging around them may give little indication that anything is different.
South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has imposed an approximately $9.47 million (KRW 12.836 billion) administrative monetary penalty on GS Retail, finding that the company failed to put adequate protections in place against cyberattacks and, after discovering the first breach, failed to respond adequately enough to prevent what followed.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is turning its attention to the technology failures that can disrupt banks without a cyberattack ever taking place, highlighting weaknesses in change management, system testing and third-party dependencies as persistent sources of operational risk.
Australia’s Federal Court has now ordered Venture 5 Group, which trades as CashnGo, to pay about $2.5 million (AUD 3.5 million) over unfair terms that enabled those practices in its small amount credit contracts. The penalty follows proceedings brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, or ASIC. CashnGo admitted the terms were unfair and consented to the orders sought by the regulator, including the penalty.