In a recent supervision release, Sweden's Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA) published a summary of its updated sanctions risk assessment covering sectors supervised under the Anti-Money Laundering Act. The previous summary was issued in autumn 2024.
The European Data Protection Board has set out how it intends to navigate the next phase of Europe’s digital rulebook, adopting its 2026–2027 work program to make GDPR compliance easier to understand, ensure enforcement is more consistent across borders and strengthen cooperation in an increasingly crowded regulatory landscape.
Hong Kong’s banking sector closed 2025 in a position of strength, according to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s year-end review. Capital and liquidity buffers remained robust, credit risks were described as manageable, and supervisory work over the past year focused heavily on operational resilience, fraud prevention and technology risk.
Italy’s competition watchdog has turned its attention to the beauty aisle. The Italian Competition Authority has launched an investigation into Procter & Gamble amid concerns that advertising for the Braun Skin i-Expert IPL hair removal device may have gone too far in promising long-lasting results.
Farmers’ Mutual Group (FMG) has admitted to breaching fair dealing provisions under New Zealand’s Financial Markets Conduct Act after an investigation by the country’s financial regulator. The Financial Markets Authority’s inquiry, which followed a self-report by FMG, focused on two long-running issues affecting tens of thousands of policyholders.
The GRC Report has announced a new partnership with the Risk-!n 2026 conference, aligning one of the fastest-growing governance, risk, and compliance media platforms with a cross-industry gathering focused on risk management, resilience, and decision-making.
Europe’s long-promised reset of anti-money laundering supervision is moving from legislative text to lived reality. Speaking in Frankfurt on Tuesday, Claudia Buch, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, used a policy workshop to lay out what the arrival of the European Anti-Money Laundering Authority actually means in practice.