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New Zealand Financial Markets Authority: BNZ Admits Misleading Conduct And Pays $2.6 Million

Date 17/06/2026

Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) has admitted breaching fair dealing rules by misleading customers on how interest was calculated on some non-profit accounts. They have agreed to pay $2.6 million to the Crown through an enforceable undertaking.

SIFMA Comments On SEC Statement On Covered User Interfaces

Date 16/06/2026

SIFMA filed a comment letter today with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in response to the Staff Statement Regarding Broker-Dealer Registration of Certain User Interfaces Utilized to Prepare Transactions in Crypto Asset Securities issued by the Division of Trading and Markets. In the letter, SIFMA notes its appreciation for the SEC’s efforts to provide regulatory clarity for emerging technologies and encourages the SEC to proceed with a notice-and-comment rulemaking process to address important unresolved questions. This process, the letter notes, creates a durable, comprehensive regulatory framework that both benefits market participants and ensures markets are subject to longstanding investor protection and market integrity principles.

Bitso Business Unveils Expansion To Asia And Next-Generation Payment Rails To Unify Global FX

Date 16/06/2026

• Bitso provides a secure and seamless gateway for cross-border liquidity between Latin America and Asia, embedding compliance directly into its core infrastructure 
• At the closing of the Stablecoin Conference 2026, the company also revealed the winners of its annual global accelerator program, The Push 2026

CFTC Issues A Request For Information To Facilitate Innovation And Competition For Fintech Firms

Date 16/06/2026

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued a Request for Information to assist the Commission in identifying regulations, guidance documents, orders, no-action letters, and other items (“CFTC regulatory item(s)”) that unduly impede fintech firms from entering into partnerships with federally regulated institutions as well as CFTC regulatory items that could be amended to streamline application processes for eligible fintech firms.  

UK Government Publishes Terms Of Reference For Wholesale Digital Markets Champion

Date 16/06/2026

Government has today (16 June) set out in further detail what Chris Woolard will focus on and deliver.

AI Stocks And Bitcoin Set To Gain As US-Iran Peace Deal Eases Market Pressures

Date 16/06/2026

A new peace agreement between the United States and Iran is poised to shift market dynamics, easing inflationary pressures and refocusing investor attention on the booming AI sector and the outlook for Bitcoin, according to Marc des Ligneris, Senior Portfolio Manager at CoinShares.

Change In SIX Executive Board

Date 16/06/2026

Rafael Moral Santiago, Head Securities Services and Member of the Executive Board, will leave SIX. Marion Leslie, Head Financial Information and Member of the Executive Board, will assume responsibility for the business unit on an interim basis with immediate effect.

Shield Extends The Compliance Perimeter To AI-Generated Records And Image-Based Content - As AI-Assisted Work And Image-Based Communication Outpace Compliance Coverage, Shield’s Native Copilot Connector And OCR Text Extraction Close Two Significant Monitoring Gaps For Financial Firms

Date 16/06/2026

Shield, the global communications surveillance platform for financial services, today extended the reach of its communications surveillance platform to cover Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions and image-based content, bringing two of the fastest-growing compliance blind spots under active monitoring. 

Nodal Exchange And IncubEx Expand Environmental Product Suite With CORSIA, California And Massachusetts Contracts

Date 16/06/2026

Nodal Exchange, in collaboration with IncubEx, announced today the successful launch of several new environmental futures and options, including: CORSIA, California Carbon Offsets and Massachusetts CPEC contracts.

The EBA Proposes Simplifications To The EU Bank Capital Framework In A Holistic Manner To Strengthen Its Efficiency

Date 16/06/2026

The European Banking Authority (EBA) continues to execute on its simplification and efficiency programme. After proposals in April to reduce the reporting burden for banks and for a simpler stress-test in 2027, it publishes today a comprehensive review of the EU bank microprudential, macroprudential and resolution capital framework, including proposals to simplify it. The proposals aim to reduce complexity while preserving banks’ resilience and resolvability as well as authorities’ tools, and to ensure the framework remains focused on emerging and materially evolving risks.