Italy’s competition watchdog is turning up the pressure on two of the biggest names in global watchmaking. Citizen and Swatch now find themselves at the center of a high-stakes antitrust probe into whether they’ve been quietly calling the shots on retail pricing and punishing stores that don’t play along.
Investment firms are making progress weaving sustainability into investment decision-making, but many still aren’t connecting the dots between what clients want and what they actually end up holding. That’s the latest from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), which says firms need to improve how they align investor sustainability preferences with the true characteristics of investment products.
A religious channel that told viewers unlicensed products and prayerful outreach could fix everything from chronic illness to financial distress has been handed a £375,000 penalty by Ofcom. The regulator confirmed on 9 December 2025 that The Word Network repeatedly breached broadcasting rules, and in some cases did so even after earlier investigations had put the channel on notice.
The Treasury Department is positioning itself to take a more commanding role in how the U.S. fights illicit finance, with a draft proposal that could reshape the enforcement of anti-money-laundering (AML) rules across the banking system.
The National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) of Spain has opened a public consultation to update its widely used “Guide to Compliance Programs in Relation to Competition Law.” First rolled out in 2020, the document quickly became a go-to reference for companies designing and evaluating internal controls to prevent antitrust violations.
General insurer Tower has been ordered to pay a $7 million (NZ$11.8 million) penalty after the company overstated the value of its multi-policy discount and overcharged tens of thousands of customers for years.
The European Commission has kicked off a formal antitrust investigation into whether Google is abusing its market power by tapping into online content, from news publishers to YouTube creators, to fuel its artificial intelligence services without fair terms or compensation.