Italy’s competition authority has started investigating companies tied to the Glovo group and Deliveroo Italy, raising questions about whether the food delivery firms’ public messaging around ethics and social responsibility matched conditions experienced by riders on the ground.
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets has fined PostNL €6.923 million after the company failed to meet the country’s statutory requirements for timely mail delivery during 2023. According to ACM, only 89.48 percent of qualifying letterbox mail with a five-day delivery obligation arrived on time that year, well below the legal threshold of 95 percent.
The U.S. Department of Justice is attempting to bring a more unified approach to white-collar enforcement with the rollout of what it says is the first Department-wide corporate enforcement policy for criminal cases, a move officials say is designed to provide businesses with greater clarity about how prosecutors will evaluate corporate misconduct.
Switzerland’s financial regulator is proposing a fresh round of anti-money laundering reforms that would sharpen expectations around customer transparency, correspondent banking oversight, and sanctions compliance as global pressure on financial crime controls continues to mount.
Australia’s financial crime regulator is warning that the lines between legitimate commerce and illicit finance are becoming increasingly blurred as criminals exploit artificial intelligence, digital technologies, and global financial systems to hide the movement of illicit funds.
Over the course of 2025, Anti-Money Laundering Authority Chair Bruna Szego traveled across all 27 European Union Member States, meeting directly with the supervisors, financial intelligence units, banks, insurers, crypto firms, accountants, lawyers, and other stakeholders tasked with defending Europe’s financial system from illicit finance.
FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson announced Monday that the agency had sent warning letters to more than a dozen prominent tech companies reminding them that full compliance with the Take It Down Act must be in place by May 19. The law requires covered online platforms to create a process allowing victims to request the removal of intimate images or videos shared without their consent, including content involving children.