AI Governance

ASIC has published Form 525, the notice a liquidator must lodge to disclaim onerous company property under section 568A(1) of the Corporations Act 2001. The form itself is dated 16 February 2015, though the update is listed as 2026-09-15, so it appears to be a republication or catalog entry rather than a new requirement. Compliance teams with exposure to insolvent counterparties should understand how disclaimers affect their rights, claims, and contracts.

Japan's Financial Services Agency promulgated a partial amendment to the designation of sustainability disclosure standards under Article 19-9, Paragraph 5 of the Cabinet Office Ordinance on Disclosure of Corporate Information, and it took effect on the day of publication. The FSA received only four public comments, which suggests limited contention. Compliance teams should review the attachments to determine whether disclosure obligations or internal reporting frameworks are affected.

BaFin has warned the public about festgeldlotse(.)de, whose unknown operators are suspected of offering financial and securities services without authorization while falsely claiming a link to Munich-based TFD KVG GmbH. BaFin confirms this is identity theft and that the named firm has no connection to the site. Compliance teams should treat the warning as a fraud-typology and brand-impersonation alert and update their controls accordingly.

The Norway Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet) has published a warning about blockchain-support.fr, a website that the French Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has listed on its blacklist of impersonation (usurpation) sites. Compliance teams should treat the domain as a likely fraud vector, block it, and use it to strengthen customer-protection and fraud-prevention controls.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has instructed bank examiners not to treat super intelligence as a separate category of risk, drawing a boundary around how the emerging technology should be supervised as financial institutions expand its use. The framework directs examiners to consider what an intelligent system is authorized to do, the consequences if it fails, and how much human oversight remains in place. The sophistication of the technology itself need not determine its risk classification.

The ECB Governing Council unanimously raised all three key interest rates by 25 basis points at its September 9-10, 2026 meeting in Berlin. It cited inflationary pressure from the Middle East conflict and projected that inflation will stay above the 2% target through 2027. Compliance and risk teams should treat this as a signal to review interest rate risk, credit risk, and the conduct implications of rising rates. Bundesbank President Nagel's comments suggest further tightening is possible.

On September 15, 2026, BaFin published Circular 12/2026, which sets out the licensing procedure for alternative investment fund (AIF) management companies under Section 22 of the German Investment Code (KAGB). It replaces the 2013 information sheet and aims to give applicants clearer documentation requirements and faster processing. Compliance teams at prospective and existing AIF managers should review the new expectations, especially given the changes that stem from the Fund Risk Limitation Act.