Record C$176 million FINTRAC fine for AML failings
Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog fined Xelox Enterprises Ltd C$176 million for violating anti-money laundering regulations under the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing Act.
Closing compliance gaps: How can enterprise firms unify surveillance across business lines?
Ensuring complete compliance across business lines can be tricky. Learn how firms can satisfy regulators while keeping data secure and operations seamless.
Building AI agents for tomorrow: A governance-first approach
Global Relay Group Product Manager, Chris Lau, tells us how the implementation of AI agents should lead with a governance-first approach, and sets out 12 considerations to build AI agents with future regulation in mind.
What can financial services firms learn from the AWS outage?
An outage of Amazon cloud services that impacted thousands of businesses and millions of users has raised serious questions around Big Tech monopolies – and how firms can increase their cyber resilience.
FINTRAC issues a C$600,000 fine for transaction monitoring failures
Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog fined the First Nations Bank of Canada C$600,000 for violating multiple regulations, including a failure to regularly monitor business relationships for suspicious transactions.
Capita fined £14 million for data protection failings after cyber-attack
Capita Pension Solutions Ltd has been fined after it failed to properly protect the data of millions of customers after it was hit by a major cyber attack back in 2023.
How can firms maintain SEC Marketing Rule compliance?
Despite a slowdown in regulatory enforcement actions, ongoing Marketing Rule fines have signaled that compliant marketing messaging remains a priority for SEC. Explore how firms can reinforce compliance posture and implement the right tools to follow the marketing rules.
FINRA fines broker $10,000 for off-channel communications breaches
An ex-Wells Fargo broker has been fined and suspended by FINRA for breaching recordkeeping rules, and attempting to cover up misconduct by deleting messages.
CPPA issues record $1.35 million fine for data privacy failures
The California Privacy Protection Agency has issued the largest fine in its history, levied against Tractor Supply Company for multiple violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act.
FCA answers Call of Consumer Duty
The Financial Conduct Authority is updating its Consumer Duty approach to balance consumer protection with reducing compliance burdens on firms. It aims to clarify expectations, support innovation, and ensure fair outcomes.
What is data completeness? And why does it matter?
Regulatory expectations around the data firms capture and archive are increasing. It is no longer enough to be able to evidence that you’re capturing communications data – the expectation is that data is captured and archived in its entirety. We explore the new standard of data completeness, and why meeting it matters.
