GRC Report Staff

The Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) has issued a public warning that the online trading platform evrostovaltis-ai.com is not authorized to provide investment or crypto-asset services in Greece. Although this notice was relayed via the Norway Financial Supervisory Authority's alert system, the originating authority and jurisdiction are Greek, highlighting the cross-border nature of unauthorized entity warnings that compliance teams must track across multiple regulators.

The Norway Financial Supervisory Authority has issued a warning regarding sygnumglobal.co, an entity referencing a Swiss issuer that appears to be operating without proper authorization. The warning cross-references a FINMA (Switzerland) warning list entry, suggesting this is a case of potential brand impersonation or unlicensed cross-border financial activity targeting consumers.

The Norway Financial Supervisory Authority has relayed an FCA warning concerning "reclaim-experts.com," a clone firm fraudulently impersonating a legitimate FCA-authorized entity. Compliance teams should treat this as a consumer protection and fraud alert, ensuring customer-facing staff and fraud monitoring systems are updated to recognize this specific threat.

The AFM announced that outgoing director Jos Heuvelman has been named an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau in recognition of his decades-long contribution to Dutch and European financial regulation. This is a personnel and ceremonial announcement with no direct regulatory, supervisory, or compliance obligations attached.

The CFTC's Division of Market Oversight has issued a no-action letter allowing Electron Exchange DCM LLC to submit large trader reports on behalf of direct participants as if its contracts were exclusively self-cleared. This relief streamlines reporting obligations for the exchange and its participants, though compliance teams should confirm their reporting arrangements remain consistent with the no-action conditions.

The CFTC has finalized amendments to its interest rate swap clearing requirement, removing CDOR- and TIIE-referencing swaps from mandatory clearing and replacing them with CAD- and MXN-denominated overnight risk-free rate swaps. Compliance teams at swap dealers and major market participants must update clearing determination processes and trading documentation ahead of the new effective date.

Finansinspektionen's survey of Swedish market participants finds strong overall readiness for the move to T+1 settlement, with 84-88% of respondents reporting preparedness for the December 2026 and October 2027 deadlines, respectively. However, smaller firms lag behind larger institutions, and most companies have not committed to industry-wide testing, raising concerns about operational resilience ahead of the transition.