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UK reality-TV 'finfluencers' sentenced over illegal investment promotions February 20, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Reality TV stars who acted as online “finfluencers” to illegally promote foreign-exchange trading via their personal Instagram accounts have pleaded guilty to charges brought by the UK’s financial regulator. T... (more story)

UK financial ombudsman reforms set to move forward as board plans Feb update February 20, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

Reforms to the UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service are expected to move ahead soon, with a joint update alongside the Financial Conduct Authority and a new consultation on complaint handling likely to be publishe... (more story)

Swedbank faces Swedish money laundering controls probe February 20, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Swedbank faces an investigation by Sweden’s financial regulator into suspected breaches of the country’s money laundering regulations. The probe follows the lender's involvement in a huge money laundering scan... (more story)

Blue Owl private equity fund to sell $1.4bn to return capital to investors, pay down debt February 19, 2026 | Neil Roland

Blue Owl Capital, an investment manager of private capital funds, said it is selling $1.4 billion in assets from three credit funds to return capital to investors and pay down debt. It also is permanently halt... (more story)

UK sets out post-Brexit framework to recognize overseas prudential regimes February 19, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

The UK government has set out plans to create a new framework for recognizing overseas prudential regimes, shifting formal designation powers from retained EU law mechanisms to Britain’s finance ministry.

Climate change at center stage in TotalEnergies' French due-diligence trial February 19, 2026 | Louis de Briant

French energy group TotalEnergies is on trial this week, as a Paris court is tasked with determining whether climate change falls within the scope of France's duty of vigilance law. In an opinion seen by MLex,... (more story)

EU equity tape provider EuroCTP considers UK bid February 19, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

EuroCTP, the provider selected for the EU equity consolidated tape, is considering bidding for the UK equity tape’s separate tender process. The group will determine its participation once the Financial Conduc... (more story)

US bank lending to NDFIs has been fastest-growing loan segment, report says February 18, 2026 | Neil Roland

Bank lending to non-depository financial institutions has been the fastest-growing loan segment since the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis, rising nearly three times as quickly as the next-fastest-growing seg... (more story)

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US order on chatbot privilege underscores lack of privacy for AI conversations February 17, 2026 | Emma Whitford

Criminal defendants can't assume their litigation-related conversations with chatbots will remain confidential, a Tuesday order out of the Southern District of New York shows. It’s the second reminder this yea... (more story)

UK watchdog’s £10m investor threshold puts growth ambitions under the spotlight February 17, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

The UK's financial regulator is considering a new £10 million wealth threshold to allow high-net-worth individuals to forgo retail investor protections — a move that sparked industry and consumer debate. The f... (more story)

Differences in UK's military and civilian AI regimes can inform good regulation February 13, 2026 | Frank Hersey

UK financial services’ adoption of AI is already benefitting from stress-testing techniques developed for assessing military uses of AI that can help the financial regulator understand what’s going on under th... (more story)

EU leaders to ignite debate on bank capital rules February 11, 2026 | Fanny Roux

The issue of reviewing the EU bank capital framework will be raised by some member states during an informal meeting of EU leaders on competitiveness on Feb. 12 at a castle in eastern Belgium. These informal d... (more story)

Lower bank capital requirements won’t improve profitability, ECB official says February 10, 2026 | Fanny Roux

Resilience, backed up by supervision, is the key to the European banking sector’s competitiveness, Patrick Montagner, a member of the European Central Bank supervisory board, has told MLex, hitting back agains... (more story)

Dassault's court date arrives for EU green taxonomy fight over business aircraft February 09, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Dassault Aviation will argue to EU judges on Tuesday that business aircraft were unlawfully excluded from the bloc’s green taxonomy. The case is significant in marking the first time a company has sought to ov... (more story)

Debate over EU bank capital rules proving tricky for the European Commission February 03, 2026 | Fanny Roux

The European Commission faces a challenging task weighing up the differing views of supervisors and banks on reforms to streamline the EU bank capital framework. They disagree on the impact of a bank's capital... (more story)

Trump-Biden split on US noncompete enforcement offers deterrence test January 31, 2026 | Chris May

US Federal Trade Commission antitrust enforcers across the Biden and Trump administrations agree that employers’ pervasive use of unlawful restrictions on labor mobility are causing harm to workers, competitio... (more story)