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)
ACCC, Mastercard make their final cases as Australian antitrust trial wraps up
June 05, 2026
| Saloni Sinha
Mastercard’s defense is built on "misdirected" analysis that fails to address the central question in the case, which is whether the company used discounts on credit-card transactions to discourage merchants f... (more story)
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)