Compliance & Ethics

Canva Group Pays ASIC Over Late Financial Report Lodgements

Australia’s corporate regulator has issued nearly $518,000 (AUD $792,000) in infringement notices to companies within the Australian Canva Group, escalating its push against late financial reporting as part of a broader 2026 enforcement campaign.

FATF Praises Singapore’s Financial Crime Framework as City-State Expands AI-Driven AML Defenses

Singapore’s efforts to combat money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing received a strong endorsement Wednesday from the Financial Action Task Force, with the global watchdog concluding that the country maintains a “robust and effective” financial crime framework.

ING Belgium Pays €1.6 Million Settlement in Didier Reynders Money Laundering Investigation

ING Belgium has agreed to pay a €1.6 million settlement in connection with a Belgian money laundering investigation tied to former European Commissioner Didier Reynders, as prosecutors sharpen scrutiny on how financial institutions handle suspicious transactions involving politically exposed figures.

SEC Targets Musk-Linked Trust in Twitter Disclosure Case as Resolution Comes Into View

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has moved to expand its ongoing case tied to Twitter, adding a trust associated with Elon Musk while simultaneously signaling a potential end to the litigation.

ESMA Sets Course for Simpler EU Reporting With Push Toward ‘Report Once’ Model

The European Securities and Markets Authority is untangling one of the more persistent challenges in European financial regulation, how to make reporting simpler without losing the data regulators rely on.

AutoScout24 Ordered to Restore Data Transfers as Belgian Regulator Steps In

Belgium’s competition watchdog has ordered AutoScout24 to reinstate the flow of sellers’ listing data to a competing platform, stepping in with interim measures it says are needed to prevent immediate harm in the country’s online car sales market.

When Compliance Becomes Theater

There was a time when the challenge for compliance teams was visibility. Policies sat in binders. Codes of conduct gathered dust. Ethics, where it existed, lived more in aspiration than in practice. That problem, for the most part, has been solved.