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Americas
SEC’s future is secure with nominee Atkins, independence question remains
Paul Atkins, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), has had such high-profile roles, in both...
Enforcement Actions
Commissioner: SEC’s crypto dismissals undermine our credibility
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) has come under fire by one of its own commissioners for its dismissal...
Operational Resilience
UK’s largest banks paid customers £6.2 million after IT outages; January incident could see this double
The UK’s largest nine banks collectively paid their customers £6.2 million following IT failures in the past two years, according...
Conduct & Culture
Compliance allegations top FCA whistleblowing reports for 2024
Compliance issues topped the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) whistleblowing data for the fourth quarter of 2024, published yesterday. Almost 21%...
Enforcement Actions
Jailed crypto ATM operator known to UK authorities for years before conviction
UK authorities knew about unauthorised crypto automated teller machine (ATM) operator Olumide Osunkoya for years prior to his conviction in...
Compliance
Q3 complaints to Financial Ombudsman leap 40%
The UK Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) received 20,000 more complaints in Q3 2024/25 than in the same quarter the previous...
Americas
US deregulation by job cuts limits legal challenges, increases uncertainty
The US administration of Donald Trump has found a way to sidestep the time-consuming process of changing rules to curb...
Retail
Open banking’s promise has yet to deliver, policymakers search for reset button
This year marks the seventh anniversary of the second iteration of the EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2) coming into force....
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