GRC Report Staff

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.

The federal government collected more than $6.8 billion in settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act (FCA) in fiscal year 2025, marking the largest single-year total in the law’s history, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

Italy’s competition and consumer authority has opened two formal investigations into Activision Blizzard, part of the Microsoft group, putting the spotlight on how some of the world’s most popular mobile games nudge players toward spending money.

In a joint assessment published this week, Austria’s financial authorities say the regulation is beginning to reshape how digital risk is understood, reported, and managed across the financial system. The Financial Market Authority (FMA and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) described the first year of DORA as a constructive one, pointing to clearer insight into cyber incidents, tighter oversight of critical service providers, and what they call an emerging cultural shift in IT security across financial institutions.