In their spring 2026 risk update, the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, ESMA, and EIOPA) drew a line between two forces shaping the current environment—geopolitical tensions that refuse to ease, and a private finance market that has grown faster than the visibility around it.
A decade after regulators first put children’s online privacy under the microscope, a new global sweep suggests the landscape has shifted, but not necessarily in ways that reduce risk.
An Australian court has handed down roughly $3.9 million (AUD $6 million) in penalties against oil and gas services firm Qteq Pty Ltd and its executive chairman Simon Ashton, in a case that makes one point unmistakably clear. You do not need to succeed in forming a cartel to face serious consequences.
A surge in energy prices tied to the war in the Middle East is beginning to filter into the Dutch economy, raising inflation and complicating the outlook for growth at a moment when the margin for error is already thin.
A decision on whether Google has breached the European Union’s flagship digital competition law is now within reach, according to the bloc’s top antitrust official, setting the stage for a consequential week of transatlantic engagement with some of the world’s most powerful technology leaders.
After years of legal back-and-forth, Spain’s competition authority, the National Markets and Competition Commission, has landed on a clearer, more settled way of explaining how it fines companies for breaking competition law.
The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority has fined The Bank of London Group and its parent company, Oplyse Holdings, £2 million after concluding the firms misled supervisors about their capital position and failed to meet basic standards of integrity and transparency.