A carbon credit project developer and the company's former Chief Operating Officer settled CFTC charges for misrepresenting the effectiveness of emissions-reduction projects to obtain carbon credits that exceeded their actual entitlements.

The SEC appealed the recent judgment of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against cryptocurrency firm Ripple Labs, Inc., which ordered the company to pay a civil penalty of $125 million for the sale of unregistered securities.

A Taiwanese financial services firm settled CFTC charges for engaging in wash sales and executing noncompetitive trades.

Next week, we will run a series of articles focused on the evolving landscape of bank resolution planning and regulatory frameworks across various jurisdictions. Each day, we will highlight developments from a different region, providing insights into how financial regulators around the world are responding to the lessons learned from the 2023 bank failures.

The SEC announced that it settled charges against a former independent director of a publicly traded consumer goods company for failing to disclose a personal friendship with a senior company executive, which led to false representations in the company's proxy statements and compromised the former director's status as an independent director.