The Securities and Exchange Commission has fined the New York Stock Exchange $9 million after a systems failure caused widespread disruption when markets opened in January 2023, skipping the opening auction process for thousands of stocks and triggering volatility across the market.
The Singapore Police Force and the Monetary Authority of Singapore said they recently conducted a joint enforcement operations against Capital Asia Investments, a firm licensed to provide capital markets services in the city-state. The operation resulted in the arrest of two company directors and the seizure of more than $119 million USD (over S$160 million) held in the firm’s bank and securities accounts.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission announced Tuesday that it has withdrawn two regulatory guides and made technical updates to two others as part of a broader effort to streamline its body of regulatory guidance for industry.
Governance, risk, and compliance software provider AuditBoard has announced it is rebranding as Optro, a move the company says reflects the growing role of artificial intelligence in how organizations manage risk, compliance, and internal audit.
On Tuesday, the European Parliament is expected to outline a set of principles aimed at strengthening copyright protections as generative AI systems increasingly rely on vast troves of creative content for training. The discussion comes as policymakers grapple with concerns from publishers, artists, and media organizations that their work is being absorbed into AI models without clear acknowledgment or compensation.
The world’s largest technology platforms have submitted updated reports to the European Commission outlining how they are complying with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, the regulation designed to curb the market power of dominant digital platforms.
Spain’s National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) has launched an investigation into potential anti-competitive conduct within the country’s insurance sector, examining whether insurers and insurance brokers may have coordinated aspects of claims handling and market practices.