Compliance & Ethics

The Norway Financial Supervisory Authority has published a warning about Molentis S.A., a name linked to Luxembourg and cited in a Luxembourg CSSF warning on fraudulent activities. The notice is a consumer and investor alert, not a new rule, but it should feed into sanctions, fraud, and counterparty screening. Compliance teams should check for exposure to the named entity and update their watchlists.

The Hong Kong SFC has issued a circular requiring managers of SFC-authorized funds with direct or indirect exposure to private credit and private equity to provide clearer, more balanced disclosure of the nature and risks of those exposures. Funds with 50% or more of NAV in private market assets may be classified as complex products and face heightened distribution requirements. Compliance teams should review existing funds and update offering documents as soon as practicable.

The Norway Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet) has published a warning about valleyfinance.online, which appears to be a clone of an FCA-authorized UK firm. The warning relays an alert originally issued by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Compliance teams should treat the site as a likely fraud vector and take steps to protect customers and the institution's brand.

The Norway Financial Supervisory Authority has published a warning on "Guardcap (Clone)," an apparent clone of a legitimate firm, and references a Belgian FSMA alert on dubious WhatsApp investment groups. Compliance teams should treat this as a cross-border fraud signal and update screening, customer-protection, and fraud-awareness controls accordingly.

Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel indicated in a Le Monde interview that an ECB rate increase at the September 10, 2026 meeting is highly likely, with markets pricing a probability above 95 percent. He also addressed fiscal policy, earmarked joint European debt for defense, and stronger ESMA supervision. This is a speaker commentary rather than binding guidance, but it matters for compliance teams because of its implications for interest rate risk, market volatility, and the direction of EU financial supervision.

De Nederlandsche Bank has moved roughly 86 tonnes of gold from New York and Ottawa to the Bank of England in London to improve how quickly it can deploy reserves in a crisis. The total stock of 612.4 tonnes is unchanged. The move is not a regulatory requirement, but it shows how an official-sector institution is managing custody concentration, geopolitical risk, and operational resilience. Compliance and risk teams can use it as a reference point for their own custody and asset-location risk assessments.

Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel indicated in a Le Monde interview that an ECB rate increase at the September 10, 2026 meeting is effectively priced in, with markets assigning a probability above 95 percent. He declined to give guidance beyond that meeting, citing volatile energy and financial markets. Compliance and risk teams should treat this as a signal of tightening monetary conditions, not as binding regulatory guidance, and should prepare for related market, liquidity, and policy-driven changes.