The European Central Bank (ECB) says climate change and environmental degradation are no longer side considerations in its work, but factors that now sit firmly inside the institution’s day-to-day decision-making.
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission has issued guidance to regulated entities so that Europe’s new digital resilience regime is no longer an abstract compliance exercise. In a circular published on 19 January 2026, the regulator signaled growing concern that some firms are still struggling with the basics of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), particularly when it comes to incident reporting, ICT governance, and regulatory submissions.
In its Agenda 2026, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets signaled a tougher, more hands-on supervisory stance as technology reshapes financial markets and financial crime risks continue to evolve. The priorities include closer scrutiny of artificial intelligence, more intensive supervision of cyber resilience under EU rules, and a sharper, more targeted approach to investment fraud and money laundering.
Europe’s long-planned reshuffle of its anti-money laundering architecture quietly became reality at the start of the year. The European Banking Authority (EBA) formally handed over all of its AML and counter-terrorist financing responsibilities to the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA), marking the end of the EBA’s stand-alone AML/CFT mandate and the beginning of a new supervisory era for the European Union.
The world is entering the second half of a turbulent decade with little sense of calm on the horizon. That is the underlying message of the orld Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2026, which paints a picture of rising uncertainty, weakening cooperation, and intensifying competition across geopolitics, economics, technology, society, and the environment.
Wolters Kluwer has completed the acquisition of StandardFusion in a cash transaction valued at approximately €32 million, the company said on January 9.
China’s market rally is starting to make regulators uneasy. As the country’s benchmark stock index hovers near a decade high, authorities have moved to signal that they are watching closely and are prepared to step in if speculative excesses continue, according to Reuters.