What happens to a bank’s balance sheet when climate policy tightens and the real economy isn’t quite ready for it? That’s the kind of question Japan’s financial authorities are starting to ask more seriously, and they’ve just completed their second round of climate stress testing to try to get a clearer picture.
Cadence Design Systems, a California-based multinational semiconductor software firm, has agreed to plead guilty and pay more than $140 million in combined criminal and civil penalties after unlawfully exporting sensitive U.S. design tools to a Chinese military university, U.S. officials announced Monday.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released its regulatory action priorities for 2025–26, and it’s not just a laundry list of goals. It’s a signal flare, aimed squarely at the sectors and technologies where trust, transparency, and privacy are at risk.
Anglian Water has been hit with a proposed £62.8 million ($81 million USD) enforcement package after Ofwat found the company had breached legal obligations in managing its wastewater treatment works and sewerage network.
Innovation may be reshaping the financial sector but not always for the better. That’s the message coming through loud and clear in the European Banking Authority’s (EBA) latest biennial Opinion on money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risks.
The UK’s newly released 2025 National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (NRA) marks a critical turning point in how financial crime risk is expected to be understood, assessed, and managed.
Online travel agency Webjet has been ordered to pay $6.1 million (AU$9 million) in penalties by the Federal Court after admitting to misleading consumers about flight prices and booking confirmations, following an investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).