The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that New York Packaging, which does business as Redi-Bag, and its chief executive, have agreed to resolve allegations that they falsely declared the country of origin of imported polyethylene retail carrier bags, allowing the company to avoid antidumping duties owed to the United States.
The Dutch central bank has fined payment institution CCV Netherlands €2.65 million after finding that deficiencies in its transaction monitoring system persisted for more than two years, leaving thousands of merchant profiles improperly processed and potentially suspicious activity inadequately examined. De Nederlandsche Bank announced the penalty Monday, saying CCV failed to adequately and continuously monitor transactions as required under the Netherlands’ Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act, known by its Dutch abbreviation, Wwft.
Edwards Lifesciences paid $115 million for JC Medical in July 2024, an amount that landed just beneath the $119.5 million threshold that would have required the transaction to be reported to federal antitrust authorities. It was close, but close does not count in a statute governed by arithmetic. The Federal Trade Commission says the math was incomplete.
For 208 business days, Deutsche Bank’s reports to Australia’s corporate regulator placed hundreds of thousands of derivatives transactions on the wrong side of the ledger. The problem was in the “direction” fields, mandatory entries showing whether the bank was acting as the effective buyer or seller at a specified price. Deutsche Bank reported those fields inaccurately for 264,574 over-the-counter derivatives transactions between Oct. 21, 2024, and Aug. 15, 2025, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
RentGrow will pay $2.25 million to settle federal allegations that its tenant screening reports included duplicate criminal and eviction records, potentially making some applicants appear to have more extensive histories than they did, the Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday.
The French Autorité des Marchés Financiers' latest review of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing controls, published as part of the regulator's 2026 supervisory priorities and its broader Impact 2027 strategy, distills what inspectors found across 46 examinations that resulted in regulatory follow-up between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2025. Those inspections produced 16 sanction decisions, 16 administrative settlement agreements, and 16 follow-up letters requiring firms to remedy deficiencies, with some inspections leading to more than one form of regulatory action.
Britain's communications regulator has fined Virgin Media £28 million after finding the company repeatedly subjected customers to unreasonable effort and unnecessary difficulty when they tried to cancel their contracts and switch to another provider. The penalty, announced Wednesday, is the largest Ofcom has ever imposed under its consumer protection rules for direct harm to consumers.