EnforcementAmerican Express's national bank has been fined $350m by the OCC, and the Federal Reserve has ordered the parent to fix its controls. The regulator says about $13bn of suspected trade-based money laundering went unreported over nearly eleven years.
OCTOBER 10, 2026
Data BreachOracle learned of the theft of patient data from old Cerner servers in February 2025 and told hospitals that notifying patients was their job. On Friday a filing under Cerner's name appeared on the Texas attorney general's breach list: 2,992,244 Texans, Social Security numbers included, letters sent by mail.
OCTOBER 6, 2026
AI GovernanceThe accord six AI chiefs signed with the President on Tuesday asks each company for internal controls, a team to police them, an outside auditor and an independent board committee. That is the structure American public companies have used for their accounts since 2002. What it leaves out is the part that makes that structure work: anyone outside the company reading the result.
OCTOBER 1, 2026
RegulationOn Sunday the SEC's corporate finance staff edited one answer in the crypto FAQs they had published on Thursday, adding the words "and has no central party". Under the Commission's own definitions, that moves the safe ground for a token buyback from a network that works to a network nobody controls.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
VulnerabilitiesCISA put two actively exploited NetScaler flaws on its must-patch list on Sunday evening, with a Wednesday deadline and a forensic check attached. It is the fourth NetScaler entry in 32 days. The three-day window is new this year, and September has already brought more additions to the catalogue than any other month of 2026.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2026
EnforcementProsecutors want to seize $61m from two Binance accounts. The figure they put in the press release, describing the wider network, is twenty-five times larger.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2026
RegulationApplications for the new crypto regime run from September 30 to February 28. Miss the window and a firm is outside a regime that begins in October 2027.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
RegulationFifteen years of compliance produced a rule the Commission now says advisers over-applied, and a proposal to rescind it outright rather than repair it.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2026
AI SecurityAnthropic's fourth disclosed incident went undetected for seven months, through a company-wide review that was looking for exactly this.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2026
BankingA processor moving more than $100bn a year is acquiring an OCC-chartered bank, which turns a dependency on sponsor banks into something it owns.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2026
RegulationRegulation Crypto Assets would create two registration exemptions and a conditional safe harbour from the phrase that has governed the market since 2017: investment contract.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2026
AntitrustA proposed final judgment in the Southern District of New York sets the civil penalty for failures under section 7A of the Clayton Act, the provision behind premerger notification.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2026
PaymentsTwo decades of litigation produced a settlement that lowers rates slightly and loosens the rules. The largest merchants would rather go to trial.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2026
RegulationTwelve states have decided early access to earned pay is not a loan. What they disagree about is what it is instead.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2026
RegulationThe rule was finished, enjoined and reopened. The compliance date arrived and bound nobody, and the fee question is live again.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2026
AntitrustOne app store settled and cut its rate. The other is defending its remaining fee at the Supreme Court, which will decide what a platform may charge for a link.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2026
RegulationStates gave up on making every website check identity and put the obligation somewhere there are only two of: the platforms that distribute the apps.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2026
StablecoinsThe statute requires a monthly examination of stablecoin reserves. The rulemaking is deciding how strong that examination has to be.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2026
RegulationWhatever the partnership agreement says about who handles compliance, the enforcement action arrives at the institution holding the charter.
AUGUST 23, 2026
Software Supply ChainVendors have learned to produce the file. The harder question is what happens to it after it lands in a procurement inbox.
AUGUST 30, 2026
PrivacyTwenty states now have comprehensive statutes in force, and companies operating across them have stopped building to any single one.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2026
RegulationTravel-rule enforcement and transaction monitoring standards are turning compliance from a policy document into an engineering discipline.
AUGUST 6, 2026