News, standards updates and audit guidance for crypto-accounting teams, covering reporting, compliance and regulatory developments.
ESMA signals that prediction market event contracts are already caught by existing EU retail prohibitions, creating urgent product classification and compliance obligations for CASPs and their auditors.
ASIC's wind-up action against 12 companies for unlicensed financial services and four years of missed audited financial statements is a sharp reminder that audit lodgement failures and unlicensed advice carry existential regulatory risk in Australia.
ASIC charges a permanently disqualified SMSF auditor who continued signing off on 56 entities and fabricated 47 audit reports, exposing the compliance risk for accounting firms relying on third-party auditors
ASIC's $20.5M Federal Court penalty against ASX for misleading CHESS replacement disclosures sets a precedent for market operator disclosure standards and signals heightened regulatory scrutiny of technology project updates in Australia.
ASIC's DDO stop orders against Stratfund expose how TMD deficiencies in private credit funds create acute regulatory and compliance risk for accounting firms and CFOs advising on alternative investment structures
ASIC's rolling Federal Court enforcement against Australian Fiduciaries and 30+ related entities signals serious risks for accounting firms and auditors serving SMSF clients exposed to complex managed investment scheme structures
ASIC's escalating enforcement action against Melbourne adviser Ferras Merhi, covering asset freezes, travel restraints, winding-up orders and the conduct allegations that accounting firms and compliance officers need to track
ASIC's successful continuous disclosure action against Rex Airlines signals tightened accountability for listed entity boards and raises record-keeping questions relevant to firms advising ASX-listed clients.
ASIC's escalating Federal Court action against Ferras Merhi signals heightened regulatory scrutiny of superannuation advice models, conflicted remuneration, and AFSL oversight failures across Australian financial services firms.
ASIC Report 833 exposes systemic trustee oversight failures across $305 billion in superannuation platforms, with enforcement already underway and more to come
ASIC's cancellation of Capital Guard's AFS licence over a fake Macquarie bond scheme signals heightened scrutiny of fixed-income investment fraud and raises immediate compliance questions for accounting firms and auditors serving retail financial services clients.
ASIC's rolling Federal Court orders against a former fund director illustrate how regulators use asset freezes and travel restraints as live enforcement tools, with direct implications for how accounting firms and auditors assess going-concern risk and document AML exposure in Australian fund structures.
ASIC's criminal prosecution of BBY's former Executive Chairman for alleged client money misuse signals continued regulatory pressure on Australian financial services firms and their senior officers.
ASIC's June 2026 industry letter makes cyber resilience a live licensing obligation for all Australian financial services firms, with AI-accelerated threats and the FIIG Securities court outcome raising the compliance bar immediately.
MFSA imposes €2,400 penalty on a Company Service Provider for missing the 2022 Annual Compliance Return deadline, signaling active enforcement of filing obligations in Malta.
MFSA imposes a €2,400 penalty on a company service provider for missing the 2022 Annual Compliance Return deadline, a live reminder that regulatory filing obligations carry real financial consequences
MiCA's transition window has closed but uneven NCА enforcement capacity across EU member states creates immediate compliance and audit risk for CASPs and their advisers
Four concurrent EU tax enforcement and legislative developments across Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden create immediate compliance pressure for multinationals and their advisers.
Four CJEU and EU-level tax rulings from late 2022 carry direct compliance implications for accounting firms and CFOs operating across Italy, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany, covering property platform withholding, capital duties, State aid, and energy solidarity contributions.
ECB intensifies scrutiny of IFRS 9 provisioning, forbearance practices, and leveraged lending at supervised banks, with direct implications for how accounting teams and auditors support credit risk governance.
Two landmark EU court rulings reshape the tax treatment of cross-border banking branches in Portugal and close off a direct challenge to the EU Minimum Tax Directive, with direct implications for multinational structures and tonnage tax planning.
OFAC adds 134 ISIS-K and PCC-linked crypto wallets to SDN list on 1 July 2026, triggering immediate screening and transaction monitoring obligations for VASPs and financial institutions globally.
Approval phishing is a scalable, infrastructure-reusing scam that compliance teams can systematically detect and disrupt using on-chain intelligence and coordinated law enforcement protocols.
AML and compliance obligations triggered by the Huione Guarantee marketplace processing over $11 billion in USDT, with implications for transaction screening, SAR filing, and sanctions exposure at regulated firms globally
