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39 stories on the Regulatory beat — every filing on this desk, newest first.
When a regulator gains the legal authority to step inside a bank that is struggling, before a failure becomes public, that authority is called an intervention power. Switzerland is now pushing to give its financial watchdog exactly that…
AI computing power is on track to trade on a financial exchange the way oil or grain does today. The instrument that makes this possible, a futures contract, is a standardized agreement to lo
A federal judge in Brooklyn has put a pointed concern on the public record in the Adani fraud case. Judge Nicholas Garaufis called out what he described as "concerning" irregularities, pointing specifically to repeated attempts to resolve…
The tournament that decides college football's national champion may soon get significantly larger, but the conferences that control it cannot agree on how much larger. The College Football Playoff, which is the postseason bracket…
A callback scam, meaning a fraudulent text message written to make the recipient call a number the attacker controls, recently reached a Washington, D.C., resident named Paul C. with a claim that Apple Pay had already charged him $8,250…
A financial penalty approaching $1 billion has been ordered in a case over alleged harm to children on social media. A penalty, in plain terms, is a punishment a court imposes on a defendan
An alleged drug trafficker landed in Dublin after being transferred from Dubai aboard an Irish government jet. The legal mechanism behind that transfer is extradition: the formal process by which one country surrenders a wanted person to…
A Wisconsin teenager accused of killing his 10-year-old cousin in 2022 may never face a jury. A resolution hearing, a pre-trial proceeding where parties can reach an agreement to end a criminal case without going to trial, has been set for…
When a company pays down a debt by handing the creditor new shares of stock instead of cash, that is called a conversion, and each share issued dilutes ownership for everyone already holding the stock. VolitionRx Limited (NYSE American…
A Pine Manor, Florida man was arrested this week on a charge of aggravated animal cruelty, a legal distinction that separates deliberate acts of killing or serious harm from ordinary neglect, after Lee County deputies say he killed two…
A buzzer-beater is a shot taken as the clock reaches zero. Chelsea Gray hit two of them Thursday night, once to tie the game and once to win it, giving the Las Vegas Aces an 86-84 overtime victory over the Indiana Fever at Gainbridge…
Travelers booking Princess Cruises voyages in 2027 and beyond will soon face higher upfront deposits and a shorter window to pay in full. A final payment deadline, the date by which a passenger must settle the remaining balance or forfeit…
A specialty retailer has put its own board chairman into the top executive seat on a temporary basis. That arrangement, an interim appointment, holds the position open while the company searches for a permanent chief executive. Destination…
An 8-K, the mandatory SEC disclosure companies file when executive leadership changes, confirmed that STAAR Surgical (NASDAQ: STAA) has named Warren Foust its permanent President and Chief Executive Officer, effective August 4, 2026. The…
A radiopharmaceutical company, one that develops drugs using radioactive compounds to help clinicians detect and treat disease, is changing hands in a deal valued at up to $8.0 billion. Cur
A computing company agreed to buy a data center development site using stock as the only currency, with 80 percent of the price payable only if the site hits specific build-out targets. That arrangement, called milestone-based…
Two pieces of news arrived in the same regulatory filing this week: a finance chief is stepping down, and a stock that had spent months below Nasdaq's minimum price floor, the $1.00-per-share threshold every listed company must maintain to…
About $100 billion has been returned to American importers after US customs officials repaid roughly 60 percent of the levies collected under the Trump administration's "liberation day" tariff program. A levy is a charge the government…
A non-disclosure agreement is a written contract that bars signers from discussing what they learn inside a meeting. The Democratic National Committee asked its senior officers to sign one before a private gathering on June 25, two people…
A blank-check company extended its window to close a merger by depositing $50,000 into a protected escrow account, then issued two zero-interest promissory notes to acknowledge each party's share of that cost. The escrow account, called a…
A drug application that lets the FDA begin reviewing completed portions before the full package arrives has reached federal regulators for a treatment targeting a serious, rare condition with no approved therapies in the United States…
A depth signing, the kind of roster addition that keeps starters fresh rather than replaces them, brought Jadeveon Clowney back to the Houston Texans on a one-year contract worth $5.5 million. The deal includes incentives that could push…
A $56 million financial settlement resolves the civil claims from an eBay harassment campaign in which employees cyberstalked a Boston couple. Cyberstalking, in legal terms, is the use of electronic communications to repeatedly target…
A $23 billion class-action settlement against the federal government makes 450,000 student loan borrowers eligible for debt cancellation. A class action is a single lawsuit filed on behalf of a large group sharing the same legal complaint…
A referral to the bar, meaning the state body that licenses and can discipline or disbar attorneys, is now part of the fallout from a court order that sharply rejected Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue…
A quarterly cash dividend, a fixed per-share payment distributed to stockholders on a recurring schedule, of $0.20 per share is headed to Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) investors next month. T
A state lawsuit says Kalshi, a prediction market platform (a venue where users buy contracts tied to the outcome of future events), is running an illegal gambling operation in New York. The suit
A financial disclosure, the government filing that requires officials to itemize outside financial relationships alongside their own, has revealed a connection between Kelly Loeffler's household and a high-entry private club. The document…
Electronic bond trading, where buyers and sellers of debt securities match orders through a digital platform rather than bilateral phone calls between broker desks, is consolidating at the top. Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) has…
Advisory votes on executive compensation, meaning non-binding shareholder ballots that let investors signal approval or disapproval of how top managers are paid, sat at the center of a governance disagreement at Bogota Financial Corp…
The gap between what a conference claims and what it actually wins is measurable in this sport. In college football, that measurement runs through the College Football Playoff, the postseason bracket that determines a national champion…
A satellite mission built to rescue a space telescope from fiery reentry (the uncontrolled fall back through Earth's atmosphere that destroys aging spacecraft) is instead spinning out of control. NASA announced Tuesday that Link, built by…
A legal settlement, meaning a negotiated resolution that ends a lawsuit without a court verdict, cleared a notable liability question at Johnson and Johnson. Financial commentator Jim Cramer responded by framing the recent mood across Wall…
A tariff is a tax collected at the border on imported goods, paid first by the importer and generally passed further down the supply chain toward buyers. President Trump said his new tariffs are achieving the same result as an earlier set…
A Pennsylvania community bank that closed four acquisitions between April 2025 and February 2026 now holds $7.1 billion in total assets. Total assets, which counts everything a bank owns or is owed, from loans to investment securities…
A wave of more than 2,000 legislative and policy proposals now aims to govern artificial intelligence, the broad term for software systems that learn from data
The International Criminal Court, the permanent international body that prosecutes individuals for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, has removed its top prosecutor. Member
A legal challenge from state attorneys general has put the proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery on hold. A merger is when two companies combine into one entity under shared ownership. The attorneys general allege…
Standard BioTools Inc. received a formal warning from Nasdaq on July 22, 2026, after its shares traded below $1.00 for 30 consecutive business days. The Boston-based company, which lists its common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market…