GRC Report Staff

A warning concerning Standards Reliance and its website, standardsreliance.com, has been published, and the source metadata is inconsistent: the record lists Norway's Financial Supervisory Authority as the regulator, but the linked notice and issuer field point to the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). Compliance teams should treat the entity as a high-risk, potentially unauthorized provider and confirm the originating regulator before relying on the record in controls or reports.

The Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) has warned that Oversea Capital Markets Limited Single-Member Private Company (IKE) and the website overseatrades.com are not authorized to provide investment services or hold client funds. Compliance teams should treat both as unlicensed and high-risk, and update screening and monitoring controls accordingly.

The Norway Financial Supervisory Authority has listed a warning, originally issued by Luxembourg's CSSF, about fraudulent actors impersonating Eurizon Capital SGR S.p.A., Luxembourg Branch. Compliance teams should treat the name as a known impersonation vector and strengthen onboarding, payment, and client-communication controls accordingly.

Bank of America failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions in a timely manner and allowed serious deficiencies in its anti-money laundering controls to persist for years, even after regulators ordered the bank to correct them, according to enforcement actions announced Tuesday by the U.S. Treasury Department.

CVS Pharmacy and related corporate entities have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve federal allegations that the pharmacy chain filled unlawful prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances for more than a decade, then sought reimbursement for many of those prescriptions from Medicare and other federal healthcare programs.

The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened a direct line to its senior legal leadership for companies considering whether to report suspected fraud, bribery or corruption, responding to concerns raised by lawyers since the agency revised its corporate cooperation guidance last year.

The European Union’s three financial supervisory authorities have set out their joint priorities for 2027, with cyber resilience, artificial intelligence and sustainable finance among the principal areas of work. The program comes alongside new guidance from the EU’s securities regulator identifying the financial and sustainability reporting issues that listed companies should address in their 2026 annual reports.