France’s competition authority, the Autorité de la concurrence, has fined Nexans and Sonepar a combined €6.5 million after concluding the two groups maintained what it described as a de facto exclusive import arrangement for electrical cables across France’s overseas territories.
India’s insurance regulator has adjusted its focus on how products are presented and sold online, urging insurers to take a closer look at whether their digital platforms are steering customers in ways that may be misleading.
New guidance from the Japanese Financial Services Agency reframes how institutions are expected to think about financial crime, placing a firm emphasis on adaptability, governance, and real-world effectiveness rather than technical compliance alone. The message running through the document is simple but consequential. Static controls will not hold up in a system where threats evolve by the day.
Italy’s antitrust regulator has taken aim at one of the country’s best-known jewellery brands, handing Morellato a €25,895,043 fine for a long-running set of distribution practices that, in the authority’s view, crossed the line from brand control into outright restriction of competition.
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission is tightening oversight of the crypto sector, proposing a set of rule changes that read less like a wholesale rewrite and more like a deliberate effort to close the gaps regulators believe have been quietly undermining the system.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a warning to some of the world’s largest payment platforms, signaling that access to the financial system is now firmly on the regulator’s radar as a consumer protection issue.
Australia’s overhaul of its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing framework has moved out of consultation mode and into execution, with regulators finalizing the rules that will govern how businesses transition into the new regime.