The companies, products and regulatory developments shaping the broker industry.
Matched monetary definitions put settlements at 42.5% of 2025 pecuniary sanctions. Two €7.4m German fines explain almost 42% of that settlement value, showing how a few decisions shape the aggregate.
An original comparison of ESMA’s two annual reports shows that the number of fines fell 17%, while their mean value fell only 1.4%. An increase in non-fine measures obscures that shift in the headline count.
Treasury issued a special measure against MEXC Global, but the bank-transfer prohibition takes effect 30 days after Federal Register publication rather than immediately on the announcement date.
MAS's latest FATF statement demands careful jurisdiction-specific compliance, warning institutions against treating enhanced Myanmar checks as identical to Iran and DPRK countermeasures.
The API integration delivers newly published LSEG risk intelligence into configurable screening workflows; claimed latency is measured from analyst publication.
CP26/38 sets concrete examples for model oversight, vendor settings and fraud detection; responses are due 24 December before final guidance is issued.
The coordinated US actions expose failures between transaction alerts, investigation queues and payment controls. The financial penalty is only one part of the work required to repair those systems.