Dutch financial supervisors are pressing market participants to look closely at new reporting expectations under the revised European Market Infrastructure Regulation, following fresh clarification from Europe’s securities watchdog.
Hong Kong’s securities regulator has fined Saxo Capital Markets $510,000 (HK$4 million) after finding that the firm allowed retail investors to trade complex virtual asset-related products that should have been restricted to professional investors.
Teledyne has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it supplied the U.S. military with aircraft components that failed to meet contract requirements, according to the Justice Department.
Italy’s antitrust authority has drawn a hard line under what it describes as one of the most serious competition law breaches ever uncovered in the country’s industrial sector, fining 16 iron foundries and their trade association, Assofond, a combined €70 million for running a covert price-coordination scheme that spanned two decades.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s failure to fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would violate an existing court order, according to the Economic Times, rejecting the administration’s argument that no lawful funding mechanism remains available to keep the agency operating.
For years, pyramid schemes were thought of as a relic of the 1990s. According to Poland’s competition authority, they never really went away. They just learned new language, new platforms, and new disguises. On December 30, 2025, the President of UOKiK announced more than $6 million (over PLN 24 million) in combined fines against two U.S.-based companies, iGenius and International Markets Live, concluding that both operated prohibited pyramid-type incentive schemes.
The Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (Korea Financial Intelligence Unit) recently held the first meeting of a new taskforce tasked with revisiting the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information. While the meeting itself was procedural, the mandate behind it is anything but. The taskforce is meant to modernize Korea’s AML framework, sharpen responses to cross-border crime and large-scale financial fraud, and prepare the ground for South Korea’s next mutual evaluation by the Financial Action Task Force in 2028.