The U.S. Department of Justice has quietly opened an antitrust investigation into the National Football League, turning fresh scrutiny on how America’s most powerful sports league sells its games and what that means for fans trying to watch them.
New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority has flagged ongoing weaknesses in financial reporting disclosures, even as overall standards remain high and filing timeliness shows signs of improvement.
Europe’s data protection authorities issued more than €1.145 billion in fines in 2025, reinforcing a steady trend of high-value GDPR enforcement driven largely by the bloc’s biggest regulators, according to the European Data Protection Board’s latest annual report.
Japan’s financial regulator has set out a path for how sustainability reporting will evolve from a compliance requirement into something closer to financial reporting in both structure and scrutiny. The Financial Services Agency (FSA) on January 8 published a report and accompanying roadmap detailing how companies will be required to adopt standardized sustainability disclosures, and, crucially, how those disclosures will eventually need to be independently assured.
There’s a difference between getting it wrong and waiting too long to admit it. For Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited, that delay has now cost the company $2.83 million (AUD $4 million) after the Federal Court found it failed to promptly update the market on a sharp downgrade to its 2022 revenue outlook.
The European Parliament has signed off on a sweeping set of anti-corruption rules that aim to bring long-fragmented national approaches into closer alignment, setting a common baseline for how corruption is defined, prosecuted, and punished across the European Union.
The U.S. Department of Justice has secured a guilty plea from Florida-based insurance brokerage AP of South Florida (APSF) and a $107 million civil settlement with AssuredPartners, Inc., marking one of the more striking enforcement actions tied to fraud in the Affordable Care Act marketplace in recent years.