The European Commission has imposed fines totaling roughly €72 million on three automotive starter battery manufacturers and their industry trade association for participating in a long-running cartel that distorted pricing for car and truck batteries across Europe.
Malaysia has made real strides in strengthening its defenses against money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing over the past decade, but enforcement outcomes continue to lag behind the country’s growing investigative capabilities. That is what a new mutual evaluation by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) is saying, based on an on-site assessment carried out in February 2025.
Poland’s competition and consumer protection authority has fined P4, the operator of the Play mobile network, about $27 million (PLN 108,573,207) after ruling that a widely used discount scheme unlawfully penalized customers who paid their bills late.
TIGO Guatemala has agreed to pay more than $118 million to resolve a U.S. investigation into a years-long bribery scheme that prosecutors say was baked into the company’s local operations and designed to influence lawmakers in Guatemala.
Swiss competition authorities have opened an investigation into Apple’s control over near-field communication technology on iPhones, examining whether the company’s terms for granting access to the NFC interface raise concerns under Swiss antitrust law.
Nationwide Building Society has been hit with a £44 million fine after the UK’s financial watchdog found that long-standing weaknesses in its financial crime controls left it exposed to money laundering risks for years.
Bupa has been ordered to pay $23.3 million (AUD $35 million) after the Federal Court found the health insurer misled thousands of members, and even hospitals and medical providers, about what their private health policies actually covered. The ruling caps off a years-long stretch of incorrect claims decisions that, in many cases, left members believing they had no entitlements at all when parts of their treatment were in fact covered.