The White House on Thursday signaled a big shift in how the federal government plans to pursue large-scale fraud, announcing that the administration of Donald J. Trump is moving to establish a new Department of Justice division dedicated to national fraud enforcement.
The European Commission has published a detailed snapshot of how stakeholders are responding to the ongoing review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), offering an early sense of where Europe’s landmark digital competition rule is landing and where pressure is already building for change.
Europe’s financial supervisors are taking another step toward embedding environmental, social, and governance risks into mainstream oversight, with the publication of new Joint Guidelines on ESG stress testing by the European Supervisory Authorities.
The U.S. Department of Labor is giving benefit plan administrators more breathing room to fix past reporting missteps, expanding a long-running self-correction program to cover missed annual filings by Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements.
In a statement recently published, the Danish Data Protection Authority laid out the areas that will receive special attention in its supervisory work this year. The priorities form the backbone of inspections, guidance, complaint handling, and European cooperation planned for 2026, and they reflect a growing unease about how fast-moving technologies are reshaping everyday data processing, often in ways individuals have little real ability to resist.
The Philippines' Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued Memorandum Circular No. 16, Series of 2025, adopting the Philippine Financial Reporting Standards on Sustainability Disclosures and setting out new reporting rules for publicly listed companies and large non-listed entities. The circular marks a decisive shift away from the country’s earlier, more limited sustainability reporting framework and brings its sustainability reporting regime into line with global practices.
Dutch financial supervisors are pressing market participants to look closely at new reporting expectations under the revised European Market Infrastructure Regulation, following fresh clarification from Europe’s securities watchdog.