Compliance & Ethics

On Tuesday, the FTC said it had warned 12 companies that they appear to be failing to comply with the Take It Down Act, the federal law that officially entered enforcement this week after a one-year compliance period. The problem, according to the FTC, is not especially complicated. The companies allegedly do not appear to provide victims with a legally compliant process for requesting the removal of nonconsensual intimate images appearing on their platforms.

On Wednesday, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre ordered Bankstown District Sports Club to appoint an external auditor after raising concerns that the club’s anti-money laundering controls may not be strong enough to prevent criminal exploitation.

Two Canadian steel companies and one of their top executives have agreed to pay $19 million to resolve allegations that they evaded customs duties by falsely declaring the origin of imported steel products entering the United States. Canada-based Farjess, Royal Canadian Steel, and part-owner and president Feroz Jessani allegedly avoided paying duties on flat-rolled steel products by misrepresenting their countries of origin to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The OCC has outlined a series of supervisory and regulatory changes aimed at reducing burden on community banks while preserving what the agency described as a risk-based approach to oversight. The reforms touch everything from Community Reinvestment Act examinations to capital calculations, model risk management, and cybersecurity reviews.

A federal judge in Nevada has ordered payment processor Cliq and two of its executives to pay $6.5 million in sanctions after finding they violated a 2015 court order intended to prevent the company from facilitating consumer fraud.

Reuters first reported on Sunday night that France’s Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) had sanctioned Societe Generale with a reprimand and a €20 million fine tied to failures in its role as an insurance intermediary. According to the regulator, the bank failed to comply with pre-contractual information obligations and its duty to advise customers when selling both bundled and standalone insurance products.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s campaign against state crackdowns on prediction markets reached Minnesota on Tuesday, as the agency filed suit to block a new law that would make operating or assisting in the operation of a prediction market a criminal felony.