GRC Report Staff

The Philippines' Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued Memorandum Circular No. 16, Series of 2025, adopting the Philippine Financial Reporting Standards on Sustainability Disclosures and setting out new reporting rules for publicly listed companies and large non-listed entities. The circular marks a decisive shift away from the country’s earlier, more limited sustainability reporting framework and brings its sustainability reporting regime into line with global practices.

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.

China has taken another step toward formalizing how companies report on climate risk and impact, unveiling a new national standard designed to bring greater structure and consistency to corporate sustainability disclosures.

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.

Since early access opened, solution providers have been claiming spots at a measured but consistent pace. Of the 100 early access placements made available, fewer than 90 remain. Our team behind GRC Report says the interest reflects something they’ve been hearing more often over the past year. Practitioners are tired of trying to make sense of the GRC technology market through vague categories, inflated claims, and review sites that don’t quite pass the sniff test.

Sweden’s data protection watchdog is starting 2026 with a quieter but meaningful internal reset, one that reflects how enforcement, guidance, and technology are increasingly intertwined in day-to-day GDPR oversight.