American Express has landed in the crosshairs of France’s data protection regulator, which says the company repeatedly ignored rules that give internet users control over how they’re tracked online.
America’s largest apartment manager is being forced to clean up how it markets rent to prospective tenants. Greystar has agreed to pay $24 million and end what regulators call a pattern of hiding unavoidable monthly fees behind deceptively low rent ads. The resolution follows a joint lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Colorado, which accused the real estate giant of luring renters in with prices that didn’t reflect what they would actually pay to live in its properties.
After years of warnings that corruption too easily slips through cracks between national legal systems, EU lawmakers have reached a political deal to tighten the net. On Tuesday night, negotiators from the European Parliament and Council agreed on the Union’s first directive to harmonise criminal laws against corruption, a milestone many in Brussels say is overdue.
Europe wants deeper capital markets, more private investment, and a financial system that can compete globally. But one of the bloc’s leading regulators is warning that the EU is trying to build that future on an outdated supervisory map.
Australia’s financial watchdog is tightening expectations for industry codes of conduct, making clear that if banks, insurers, lenders, or investment firms want to claim their codes are “ASIC-approved,” they’ll need to prove those codes actually work for consumers.
The European Union must rapidly scale up investment in climate resilience to protect its economy and communities from escalating climate-related threats, according to a new report delivered to Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra on Tuesday.
Google has been ordered by Australia’s Federal Court to pay $36.3 million (AUD $55 million) after admitting that revenue-sharing deals with Telstra and Optus unfairly restricted competition in the mobile search market.