Poland’s competition and consumer protection authority has fined P4, the operator of the Play mobile network, about $27 million (PLN 108,573,207) after ruling that a widely used discount scheme unlawfully penalized customers who paid their bills late.
TIGO Guatemala has agreed to pay more than $118 million to resolve a U.S. investigation into a years-long bribery scheme that prosecutors say was baked into the company’s local operations and designed to influence lawmakers in Guatemala.
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined password manager provider LastPass £1.2 million following a 2022 data breach that exposed the personal information of up to 1.6 million UK users, concluding that the company failed to implement sufficiently robust security measures despite offering a service designed to improve online security.
The International Sustainability Standards Board released targeted amendments to its IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures standard, responding to practical challenges companies have encountered as they begin putting the new climate rules into practice.
Swiss competition authorities have opened an investigation into Apple’s control over near-field communication technology on iPhones, examining whether the company’s terms for granting access to the NFC interface raise concerns under Swiss antitrust law.
Nationwide Building Society has been hit with a £44 million fine after the UK’s financial watchdog found that long-standing weaknesses in its financial crime controls left it exposed to money laundering risks for years.
Italy’s financial regulators are updating the rulebook on how banks, insurers, and other financial institutions stress-test their cyber defenses, as the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act moves from theory to day-to-day supervision.