Spain’s National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) has launched an investigation into potential anti-competitive conduct within the country’s insurance sector, examining whether insurers and insurance brokers may have coordinated aspects of claims handling and market practices.
Poland’s competition and consumer protection authority says years of enforcement against misleading country-of-origin labels on fruit and vegetables are beginning to pay off, with follow-up inspections now showing that irregularities in grocery stores have dropped to negligible levels.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has issued an $80 million civil money penalty against Canaccord Genuity, accusing the broker-dealer of willfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) through systemic anti-money laundering failures tied to securities fraud activity.
Australia’s corporate regulator has taken the unusual step of asking a court to wind up Liberty Bell Bay after the company repeatedly failed to lodge mandatory financial reports and allegedly ignored court orders requiring it to do so.
The UK water regulator Ofwat has proposed a £22.46 million penalty against South East Water, accusing the company of repeated failures that left hundreds of thousands of customers without reliable water supply over several years.
A New Zealand High Court has imposed a $1.3 million (NZD $2.1 million) penalty on ASB Bank after internal process failures resulted in incorrect charges and missed discounts for thousands of customers. The ruling follows enforcement action by New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority and stems from issues tied to the bank’s insurance products and digital banking services. In total, more than 25,000 customers were affected, prompting ASB to refund approximately $2.9 million (NZD $4.7 million) once the issues were identified.
Poland’s competition and consumer protection authority had a busy year in 2025, issuing hundreds of decisions across sectors ranging from banking and telecommunications to e-commerce and agricultural machinery, and imposing more than $290 million (PLN 1.15 billion) in fines.