GRC Report Staff

Japan's Financial Services Agency has published draft amendments to the Comprehensive Supervisory Guidelines for Insurance Companies and is soliciting public comments until October 13, 2026. The draft restructures regulations on in-house agents, establishes antitrust compliance system expectations, and enhances monitoring of non-life insurance products for corporations. Non-life insurers and related agencies should assess the impact now and decide whether to submit comments.

The French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) has opened applications for its 2026 "Young Researcher in Economics" prize, worth EUR $5,000, with a deadline of November 15, 2026. The prize carries no compliance obligations for regulated firms. It does signal the economic and financial research themes the AMF considers relevant to its regulatory work, which compliance teams may want to monitor.

Germany's Federal Data Protection Commissioner (BfDI) has issued recommendations urging the Federal Government to improve public information and give insured persons finely differentiated control over who can view their electronic patient record (ePA) data. From the end of October 2026, pseudonymized medication list data can be extracted from the ePA for research unless the insured person objects. Compliance teams at health-sector organizations and research partners should treat this as a signal of regulatory expectations for consent, transparency, and secondary use of health data.

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has told all energy suppliers in a letter that telemarketers may not pose as independent comparison services when selling energy contracts. Suppliers that use such intermediaries must show ACM what measures they are taking to ensure full compliance. The action reinforces that the contracting supplier is accountable for the entire sales process, including third-party sellers acting on its behalf.

Senior officials from the CFTC, SEC, FDIC, Federal Reserve Board, and Bank of England held a tabletop exercise on September 3, 2026, on the hypothetical resolution of central counterparties (CCPs). The meeting focused on information sharing and communications arrangements to support financial stability during a CCP resolution. It introduces no new requirements, but it signals continued cross-border policy attention on CCP resilience that matters for clearing members and market participants.

At the 2026 Green Fintech Symposium, HKMA Chief Executive Eddie Yue called on the financial sector to use technology and data to direct capital to high-impact decarbonization projects and guard against greenwashing. The event introduced no new rules or deadlines, but it signals HKMA supervisory priorities on climate risk, ESG data integrity, and AI-enabled sustainable finance. Compliance teams should treat it as a directional indicator when planning ESG and climate-risk controls.

The Norway Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet) has published a warning about the website accsmanager.com, relaying a listing by France's Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) on its blacklist of impersonation (usurpation) schemes. Compliance teams should treat the domain as a likely fraudulent or unauthorized actor and update their controls and customer-protection measures accordingly.