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US SEC, CFTC adopt standards for data reported by firms June 08, 2026 | Neil Roland

The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission established technical standards for data submitted to some financial regulators under a 2022 law. The two agencies were... (more story)

FTX founder Bankman-Fried applies for Trump pardon June 08, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Samuel Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing billions of customer deposits and investor funds provided to his cryptocurrency exchange, has asked President Donal... (more story)

UK banks call for closer financial services 'partnership' with EU ahead of summit June 08, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

The UK banking and finance industry is pushing the government to enhance regulatory ties with the EU in financial services as part of efforts at a leaders’ summit for next month intended to "reset" the UK-EU r... (more story)

EU lawmakers close in on digital euro deal ahead of key vote June 08, 2026 | Helena Freitas

The draft digital euro regulation has cleared a key hurdle in the European Parliament, after lawmakers reached agreement on core provisions. Technical work will continue this week before a committee vote on June 23.

UK regulator takes further action against ex-star fund manager Woodford June 08, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Former star fund manager Neil Woodford faces further action by the UK’s financial regulator over a subscription-based investment platform set up following the collapse of his eponymous fund. Woodford was banne... (more story)

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)

EU retail investment deal approved by national ambassadors June 05, 2026 | Fanny Roux

EU national ambassadors on Friday approved the final text of the retail investment strategy to boost citizen participation in EU capital markets, following the political agreement reached by EU countries and t... (more story)

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EU watchdog moves to ground equity-market transparency debate in evidence June 04, 2026 | Fanny Roux

The European Securities and Markets Authority is stepping in as referee in the business dispute between trading venues and banks that execute trades internally with less-stringent transparency requirements. Th... (more story)

EU's largest economies lead push for market integration compromise May 29, 2026 | Fanny Roux

The EU's six largest economies on Friday proposed compromises on the bloc's contentious capital markets reform, including restricting ESMA oversight to significant crypto firms and adopting a phased approach f... (more story)

UK banks, sector supervisors eye AI cyber risks amid resistance to regulate May 29, 2026 | Sofia Gerace, Fanny Roux and Patricia Figueiredo

UK financial regulators and banks are grappling with how to respond to potential cyber risks posed by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models such as Open AI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s forthcoming ... (more story)

Singapore AI sandbox highlights shift toward deployment-level governance May 27, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez

Enterprise AI governance is increasingly shifting away from abstract model risks toward operational oversight of how autonomous AI systems behave once deployed in the real world. That shift was evident in the ... (more story)

France’s ‘legal privilege’ law sets up clash with competition enforcement May 15, 2026 | Jean Comte

A new French law that grants confidentiality to certain documents drafted by in-house lawyers is out of favor with the national competition authority over an apparent conflict with EU law — and the regulator s... (more story)

More centralized oversight of EU financial markets in Ferber’s sights May 12, 2026 | Fanny Roux

EU lawmaker Markus Ferber is expected to expand centralized supervision of post-trade market infrastructures in his upcoming draft report on a key text of the Market Integration and Supervision Package, as wel... (more story)

UK finance sector readies for clutch of reforms in new legislative agenda May 11, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

A new UK financial services bill is expected to be unveiled on Wednesday as part of government plans for the coming parliamentary session. It's likely to feature reforms the Labour party has already pledged bu... (more story)

EU governments' market supervision debate inching forward amid strong divisions May 07, 2026 | Fanny Roux

EU finance ministers on Tuesday provided guidance on what they want from reforms to further centralize financial markets supervision across the bloc, but governments remain highly divided on the scope of direc... (more story)