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UK watchdog seeks to ease climate reporting rules for investment products June 05, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

The UK financial regulator is seeking to ease its climate reporting rules for investment products with a new proposal that will affect asset managers and asset owners. The Financial Conduct Authority had intro... (more story)

Indonesia online lenders attack cartel ruling over lack of evidence, procedural flaws June 05, 2026 | Roffie Kuniawan

Eighty-seven Indonesian online lenders have urged a Jakarta court to overturn the Indonesian antitrust agency's record interest-rate cartel ruling, arguing that the regulator failed to prove any agreement amon... (more story)

US banking regulators say climate change poses no greater risk than other threats June 04, 2026 | Neil Roland

US banking regulators said they consider climate change to pose a risk to banks, but no greater than other potential hazards. “We do recognize that there are risks to banks and to their bank balance sheets fro... (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)

Mastercard continues to defend merchant agreements in Australian antitrust trial June 04, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

Mastercard’s strategic merchant agreements did not share a single anticompetitive purpose and evolved significantly over time, an Australian antitrust hearing was told on Thursday. As Mastercard’s lawyer Ruth ... (more story)

US Fed updating regulatory, supervisory thresholds, Bowman says June 03, 2026 | Neil Roland

In testimony to be delivered to lawmakers Thursday, US Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman says the agency is updating its regulatory and supervisory thresholds “to reflect economic grow... (more story)

IT risk is biggest category needing attention for US banks under $100bn, Fed says June 03, 2026 | Neil Roland

Information technology and operational risk, including cybersecurity risk, represent the largest category of Matters Requiring Immediate Attention for banks with US assets under $100 billion, the Federal Reser... (more story)

More financial services firms to get access to Anthropic's Mythos AI model June 03, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo and Sofia Gerace

More financial services firms are set to be granted access to Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos Preview AI model, MLex understands. The move comes amid growing concerns among financial authorities in the UK... (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)