July 27, 2015 - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) announced today that it has fined Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, L.P. $1.8 million for systemic Order Audit Trail System (Oats) reporting violations spanning a period of more than eight years, failure to accurately submit required trade reports to the appropriate Finra Trade Reporting Facility (TRF), and related supervisory failures.

July 22, 2015 - The European Central Bank (ECB) has reported an eight percent increase in fraud among cards issued or acquired within the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) for 2013.

July 21, 2015 - Hackers have breached the systems of Ashley Madison, a dating website for would-be adulterers, and are threatening to publish the personal information, including credit card transaction details, of millions of users.

July 21, 2015 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered Citibank, N.A. and its subsidiaries to provide an estimated $700 million in relief to eligible consumers harmed by illegal practices related to credit card add-on products and services.

July 14, 2015 - The year 2014 saw the launch of the corporate actions reform in Russia which was initiated by the Russian central securities depository and backed by securities market participants.

July 8, 2015 - Payment industry engagement in the evolution of the EMVCo Specifications for payment technologies, including tokenisation and 3D Secure 2.0, has continued to increase, with eight new members joining EMVCo's Associate Programme in the past twelve months:

July 7, 2015 - Regulatory and risk technology firm outlines research showing staggering increase in fines for first half of 2015.