The Securities and Exchange Commission has more than 34,000 registered entities within the reach of its examination program. For fiscal year 2027, the agency has identified private credit, investment adviser conflicts, cybersecurity and emerging technologies among the areas where it intends to concentrate its attention.
Twice in the autumn of 2020, a distributor supplying networking equipment to Extreme Networks was asked for the website of its Russian customer. Twice, the distributor provided the website of a company that manufactured missiles for Russia's air defense systems. The purchase orders named someone else.
More than 1,200 customers were allowed to gamble through high-risk channels at The Star Entertainment Group's Australian casinos, where cash deposits could be accepted from third parties without recording who had supplied the money.
Google and Apple charged South Korean app developers a 26% commission even when those developers chose to use their own payment systems. The developers also had to bear the costs of building and operating those systems, while working without some of the features available through the companies' proprietary billing services.
Perfection Fresh, Australia's second-largest fresh vegetable supplier, has admitted fixing the prices of broccoli, cauliflower and iceberg lettuce sold to ALDI in New South Wales on 11 occasions between 2019 and 2020, agreeing to a proposed penalty of $8.44 million (AUD $12 million).
Six British lending firms have had their business activities restricted after the Financial Conduct Authority raised concerns about their anti-money laundering controls, with one company required to wind down its existing loan book and five others ordered to undergo independent reviews.
American Express devoted more attention to the money laundering risks of its deposit accounts than to those of its much larger credit and charge card business. Over the past decade, approximately $13 billion in suspected trade-based money laundering activity went without timely identification, evaluation and sufficient reporting, according to federal regulators.
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