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US SEC moves to cancel 2005 stock-trading rules aimed at spurring competition June 11, 2026 | Neil Roland

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed to eliminate 2005 market-structure rules originally aimed at improving competition among stock markets and orders while serving interests of long-term inv... (more story)

BancTrust chief says will challenge UK fine for disclosure failures June 11, 2026 | Martin Coyle

The chief executive of UK-based emerging markets investment firm BancTrust says he will appeal against a UK regulatory fine over disclosure failures on the grounds that it would breach his freedom of speech an... (more story)

KakaoPay loses court challenge over Alipay data transfers in South Korea June 11, 2026 | Jenny Lee

KakaoPay has lost its court challenge against South Korea's privacy regulator over the transfer of roughly 40 million customers' personal data to Alipay, with a Seoul court ruling that the fintech company hand... (more story)

US CFTC outlines prediction market rules for framework June 10, 2026 | Neil Roland

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission released draft rules for prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket that would set up a framework for evaluating case by case whether wager contracts are illeg... (more story)

Ireland wants deals on key EU financial files while chairing legislative talks June 10, 2026 | Fanny Roux

Ireland says it will try to seal political deals with EU lawmakers on key, and often tricky, financial reforms during its time chairing legislative talks for the bloc's member states between July and December ... (more story)

Global financial watchdog sets out 12-point plan for responsible AI adoption June 10, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

The Financial Stability Board has proposed a set of 12 practices aimed at helping financial institutions adopt artificial intelligence responsibly, as regulators across jurisdictions seek to balance innovation... (more story)

US FDIC’s Hill unveils eased resolution plan for failed banks June 09, 2026 | Neil Roland

Travis Hill, the head of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., unveiled preparations to scale back resolution plan requirements for large banks and to reduce these firms’ deposit insurance assessments. As pa... (more story)

Woodford's W4.0 venture 'surprised' by UK regulator's threat of court action June 09, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Former UK fund manager Neil Woodford’s investment "news and views" service, W4.0, has pushed back at the financial regulator over its plan to take legal action against it for potentially offering investment ad... (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)