BaFin has issued a public warning that east-stock(.)com is offering financial and securities services in Germany without required authorization and is falsely claiming BaFin supervision. Compliance teams should treat this as a consumer protection and fraud alert, ensuring internal watchlists and client communications reflect this unauthorized entity.
APRA has appointed David Bradbury as Deputy Chair for a five-year term, with responsibility for oversight of the superannuation sector. This appointment finalizes APRA's Executive Board, providing superannuation trustees and industry participants with clarity on the regulator's leadership structure and supervisory focus going forward.
The Deutsche Bundesbank's Baden-Württemberg main office is hosting a virtual educational training session on January 27, 2027, covering Eurosystem monetary policy, German economic indicators, and foreign trade/balance of payments topics. This is an educational outreach event rather than binding regulatory guidance, and has limited direct compliance impact but may offer value for staff economic literacy.
The New York Department of Financial Services examined the Segregated Gift Annuity Fund of the Emma Willard School for 2020–2024 and found that the Fund failed to correct governance deficiencies cited in its prior 2019 report, including a lack of documented board oversight of investment policy and delegated management. The report also identifies form-use errors in gift annuity agreements, underscoring recurring weaknesses in both governance recordkeeping and product documentation controls relevant to charitable annuity issuers.
Austria's FMA has fined Liechtensteinische Landesbank (Österreich) AG EUR 244,000 for breaches of the Securities Supervision Act 2018 (WAG 2018) and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/565, citing inadequate training procedures for producing compliant suitability declarations. The decision is not yet final and may be subject to appeal, but it underscores ongoing regulatory scrutiny of investment firms' internal organizational controls in the EU/EEA.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has launched a public consultation proposing legislative amendments to the Payment Services Act 2019 to formally regulate stablecoins, updating its approach in light of market developments since 2023. Compliance teams at payment institutions, digital asset firms, and financial institutions engaging with stablecoins should review the proposals closely, as they will shape licensing, reserve, and operational requirements for stablecoin issuers and related entities in Singapore.
The European Banking Authority has published its routine transparency disclosure for EBA Chair Francois-Louis Michaud's public meeting register, covering 16-31 August 2026, with no external meetings recorded during this period. This is a standard governance transparency filing with no substantive regulatory or policy implications for financial institutions.
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