Regulatory Compliance & Due Diligence

ESMA has withdrawn or revised several Q&As it considers obsolete, covered elsewhere or no longer relevant after changes in EU legislation and market practice.

A proposed A-to-F contractor safety report would combine license, insurance and public-record signals. Here is what homeowners should verify.

Microsoft reports MAI-DxO outperformed generalists on difficult case records. The study used historical, text-only cases, not real patients.

Railway says an attacker may have accessed some customer environment variables and links the incident to attacks targeting AI inference providers.

PHP and Node.js shipped security fixes on October 21. Check which systems you run, whether providers patch them, and what remains exposed.

TeamUpdraft says attackers used stolen UpdraftCentral keys to install backdoors. The patch revokes some keys but does not clean infected sites.

Reports on a Tencent-linked agent fleet and an OpenAI evaluation show how agents exchange information—and how messages can be mistaken for permission.

Christine Lagarde told the IMF committee that energy shocks threaten growth and inflation after the ECB raised rates by 25 basis points in September.

Kiplinger reports a five-year SEC exemption for limited blockchain stock trading. The agency’s rules, scale and implementation details need verification.

ESMA elected CNMV’s Carlos San Basilio to its Management Board on 6 October, ahead of a board change taking effect on 1 November 2026.