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Singapore banks on collaborative platforms to broaden AI adoption in financial services November 14, 2025 | Jet Damazo-Santos

Singapore’s financial-services regulator is hoping two collaborative platforms will help accelerate and standardize the adoption of artificial intelligence across the industry, saying firms need more structure... (more story)

US SEC mulls relaxing 2023 Treasury clearing rules, Uyeda says November 13, 2025 | Neil Roland

The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering relaxing Biden-era requirements for US Treasuries clearinghouses, Republican SEC member Mark Uyeda said. The 2023 Treasury clearing rules require the clear... (more story)

Billionaire investor Lewis pardoned by Trump after insider trading conviction November 13, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Martin Coyle

British billionaire investor Joe Lewis was pardoned Thursday by President Donald Trump over a 2024 conviction for an insider trading scheme in which he gave stock tips to friends, associates and a romantic par... (more story)

X fined €5m in Spain over unauthorized crypto advertising November 13, 2025 | Martin Coyle

The X social-media platform, formerly Twitter, has been fined €5 million by Spain’s financial regulator for “serious” violations related to cryptocurrency advertising on its platform. Under rules introduced in... (more story)

UK watchdog issues fresh warning to firms offering risky contracts for difference November 13, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

The UK's financial services watchdog has issued a second warning in as many weeks to firms offering complex financial products known as Contracts for Difference, CFDs, amid concerns they may not be providing f... (more story)

EU’s green-reporting simplification drive approved by EU lawmakers (update*) November 13, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Eleonora Rinaldi

Companies will see largely simplified sustainability reporting rules after EU lawmakers agreed on a final text to amend the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and Corporate Sustainability Due Dili... (more story)

Singapore moves to sharpen guidance as financial firms look to generative, agentic AI November 13, 2025 | Jet Damazo-Santos

Singapore is moving to steer the financial sector’s accelerating use of artificial intelligence with proposed new guidance that lays out how institutions can safely adopt increasingly complex models, including... (more story)

South Korea central bank flags moral hazard in non-bank stablecoin models November 13, 2025 | Jenny Lee

A central banker from South Korea expressed concern about allowing non-bank institutions to issue stablecoins, saying this could effectively extend central bank balance sheet support to entities outside its re... (more story)

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Centrist EPP may be weighing vote with far-right on EU Parliament green rules November 12, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

There are renewed concerns that the center-right European People’s Party, the largest party in the European Parliament, will again side with far-right political parties in a vote on legislation involving corpo... (more story)

Euronext’s Greek deal to test ease of stock exchange consolidation across borders November 04, 2025 | Jean Comte and Andrew Boyce

Euronext has launched an all-share offer on the Greek stock exchange, hoping to add to its EU-wide portfolio of exchanges. The move doesn't need competition approval, has been welcomed by the Greek finance min... (more story)

JPMorgan compliance staff drafted anti-trafficking policies as bank kept Epstein October 31, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

In 2010, as JP Morgan Chase retained convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a client, its anti-money laundering compliance team worked on a project to protect the bank from misuse by human traffickers. The ... (more story)

UK banks push back as watchdog’s car-finance consultation nears deadline October 31, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

UK banks are stepping up criticism of the Financial Conduct Authority’s proposed redress plan for the car-finance scandal, arguing that it goes beyond what the Supreme Court intended in its August ruling. With... (more story)

Ad tracking tools subject to further scrutiny under US bulk data rule October 27, 2025 | Xu Yuan

As digital advertising faces the increasing scrutiny that comes with mounting litigation and tightened regulation, the US bulk data rule that originated from national security concerns over hostile foreign cou... (more story)

EU simplification setback reveals split over compromise or deregulation October 23, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello

The EU's plan to simplify green reporting rules is in limbo after the European Parliament’s narrow rejection of an “omnibus” directive, just as governments urge swift progress on making the EU more competitive... (more story)

New AML duties for UK financial watchdog raise concerns of overload October 21, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Sofia Gerace

Handing the UK’s financial markets regulator responsibility for supervising accountancy and law firms in relation to money laundering is a bold move, but questions remain as to how the new “super regulator” wi... (more story)

Simplified EU sustainability reporting rules widen corporate liability risks October 16, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Companies subject to EU sustainability reporting rules risk broader and more uncertain legal liability under a simplification proposal currently under negotiation, lawyers have told MLex. Removing conditions d... (more story)