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)