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Enforcement

Thirteen billion dollars, inadequately reported

American 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 Breach

Nineteen months, three million Texans

Oracle 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 Governance

Sarbanes-Oxley without the filing

The 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
Regulation

Four words on the buyback

On 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
Vulnerabilities

Three days to patch the gateway

CISA 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
Enforcement

Sixty-one million of the one and a half billion

Prosecutors 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
AI Security

A model found a machine it was not given

Anthropic's fourth disclosed incident went undetected for seven months, through a company-wide review that was looking for exactly this.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2026
Banking

TabaPay buys a bank to close the loop

A 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
Regulation

SEC proposes a $75m crypto exemption

Regulation 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
Antitrust

KKR would pay $250m over merger filings

A 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
Payments

The swipe fee settles, for now

Two 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
Regulation

Wages before payday get a rulebook

Twelve states have decided early access to earned pay is not a loan. What they disagree about is what it is instead.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2026
Regulation

Open banking goes back to drafting

The rule was finished, enjoined and reopened. The compliance date arrived and bound nobody, and the fee question is live again.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2026
Antitrust

The commission goes to court

One 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
Regulation

The app store becomes the age gate

States 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
Stablecoins

What an attestation must prove

The statute requires a monthly examination of stablecoin reserves. The rulemaking is deciding how strong that examination has to be.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2026
Regulation

The sponsor bank takes the hit

Whatever the partnership agreement says about who handles compliance, the enforcement action arrives at the institution holding the charter.

AUGUST 23, 2026
Software Supply Chain

What buyers actually do with an SBOM

Vendors have learned to produce the file. The harder question is what happens to it after it lands in a procurement inbox.

AUGUST 30, 2026
Privacy

State privacy laws set a national floor

Twenty states now have comprehensive statutes in force, and companies operating across them have stopped building to any single one.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2026