Australia’s corporate watchdog has rolled out a new round of updates aimed at simplifying how market participants and operators comply with technological and operational resilience requirements, as regulators continue to sharpen their focus on infrastructure risk across securities and futures markets.
Two whistleblowers who helped expose fraud harming investors are set to receive more than $1.8 million, after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said their information played a meaningful role in successful enforcement actions.
France’s data protection authority has fined Mobius Solutions €1 million after finding that the company, acting as a processor for music-streaming platform Deezer, failed to comply with core GDPR obligations tied to subcontracting and data handling.
Europe’s new anti-money laundering authority is beginning to move from blueprint to reality. The Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) on Thursday set out the rules that will underpin its future role as a direct supervisor of the EU’s highest-risk financial institutions, marking a major step toward more unified AML and CFT oversight across the bloc.
Instacart has agreed to pay $60 million in consumer refunds to settle a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged that the grocery delivery platform used deceptive advertising, improper subscription practices, and unlawful refund processes that raised costs for shoppers.
A decade of misreported market data, years of conflicted advice, and widespread failures affecting tens of thousands of customers all landed before the courts this week, as ASIC secured three major enforcement outcomes against Macquarie Securities, RM Capital, and ANZ. The decisions span institutional trading, advice oversight, and retail banking operations.
Ceratizit USA, a Charlotte, North Carolina–based distributor of tungsten carbide products, has agreed to pay $54.4 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly evading U.S. customs duties on imports from China, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.