US SEC should cancel 2023 cyber disclosure rules, banking group says
June 05, 2026
| Neil Roland
A major banking group urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission to eliminate its 2023 cybersecurity disclosure rules in light of frontier artificial intelligence models that expose companies to unprecede... (more story)
Western Asset Management settles US SEC probe over ex-CIO’s cherry-picking scheme
June 05, 2026
| Samuel Rubenfeld
Western Asset Management, a unit of Franklin Resources, agreed to pay $100 million to resolve a US Securities and Exchange Commission probe into the firm’s failure to detect and prevent an alleged $600 million... (more story)
Former Honduran official gets probation in US for bribes in police uniform case
June 05, 2026
| Samuel Rubenfeld
A former Honduran official was sentenced in the US on Friday to five years of probation over his role in a bribery scheme involving contracts to supply uniforms to the Honduran National Police, according to co... (more story)
UK bribery probe suspect fails to quash fraud agency evidence, warrants
June 05, 2026
| Martin Coyle
A suspect in an ongoing bribery and money-laundering investigation has failed in a bid to challenge the UK fraud agency’s use of evidence provided by the national tax authority. The individual had tried to qua... (more story)
HSBC's Swiss unit faces formal French probe over ex-Lebanon bank chief
June 04, 2026
| Martin Coyle
HSBC’s private banking unit in Switzerland faces preliminary charges brought by French prosecutors over its links to the sanctioned former head of Lebanon’s central bank. The claims relate to the alleged embez... (more story)
Nordea faces record penalty over alleged Russian money laundering failures
June 04, 2026
| Martin Coyle
Danish lender Nordea faces a record $1 billion fine for money laundering failures, after prosecutors lodged a fine against the country’s second biggest lender. The penalty, if agreed, will overshadow a previou... (more story)
Firms face consequences if they don't co-operate, new UK fraud agency chief says
June 04, 2026
| Martin Coyle
Companies that co-operate with the UK's fraud office would be given every opportunity to negotiate a reduced penalty but those that didn't would face prosecution, the new interim head of the agency has said. D... (more story)
Greensill banned from UK company director roles for nine years
June 04, 2026
| Martin Coyle
Lex Greensill, the founder of the collapsed Greensill Capital, has been banned from acting as a UK company director for nine years, following action taken by the country’s Insolvency Service. An agreement betw... (more story)