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Biggest GDPR Fines of 2025
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Last year, some hefty fines were issued often to repeat offenders. We review the largest penalties dished out in 2025 so far and the breaches behind them.
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Compliance News | March 2025 | Skillcast
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This month's key compliance news includes HSF's sanctions fine, resilience and the fire at Heathrow, Google's $28m payout, and more.
Compliance News | February 2025 | Skillcast
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This month's key compliance news includes banks' unlawful Bloomberg exchanges, OKX's AML fine, the FCA's email deletion policy, GSK's LinkedIn reprimand, and more.
Compliance News | January 2025 | Skillcast
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This month's key compliance news includes American Express's fine, outages at Capital One and Citigroup, IT disruption at the British Museum, and more.
Highest FCA Fines of 2024 | Skillcast
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The FCA had a year of cases involving individuals and firms equally guilty of breaching regulations. We analyse the breaches behind the FCA fines 2024.
Compliance News | December 2024 | Skillcast
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This month's key compliance news includes McKinsey's bribery fine, Goldman's sex discrimination case, Adidas' tax raid, Shein's isotopic testing, and more.
Compliance News | November 2024 | Skillcast
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This month's key compliance news includes Metro Bank's AML fine, NatWest's WhatsApp ban, Attenborough's AI voice clone, competition fines for Meta and Teva and more.
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Compliance News | October 2024 | Skillcast
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This month's key compliance news includes TD Bank's record AML fine, the government's Employment Rights Bill, LinkedIn's data privacy violations and more.
Compliance News | September 2024 | Skillcast
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This month's key compliance news includes FirstEnergy and Deere's bribery, Clearview AI's data fine, the fallout from the Slack hack, Nordic AML fines, SMCR woes, and more.
20 Biggest GDPR Fines 2018 - 2024 | Breaches of GDPR |...
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The past few years have seen some massive GDPR fines handed out to firms. Here's a breakdown of the top penalties from 2018 to 2024.
Compliance News | August 2024 | Skillcast
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This month's key compliance news includes AIA's $2.9m AML fine, the new EU AI act taking effect, the first FCA fine issued to an audit company and more.
Compliance News | July 2024 | Skillcast
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This month's key compliance news includes HealthEquity's data breach, a $37m whistleblower payout, Citibank's punishment for longstanding issues, and more.
How General Elections Impact Your Business | Skillcast
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With the General Election behind us, we outline a few proposals from the Labour Government and how your firm can navigate this political transition period.
Compliance News | June 2024 | Skillcast
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This month's key compliance news includes Wells Fargo dismissals, Mondelēz competition fine, Chiquita's terrorism funding, Dior and Adidas investigations, and more.
Compliance News | May 2024 | Skillcast
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This month's key compliance news includes TD Bank's fine, the City's excessive working hours culture, Citi's 'fat finger' fine, Christie's cyberattack, and more.
Compliance News | April 2024 | Skillcast
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This month’s key compliance news includes an apology from Binance's 'CZ', Taylor Swift ticket scam, Commerzbank's AML fine, and more.
Compliance News | March 2024 | Skillcast
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This month’s key compliance news includes the Big Four's AI crackdown, Van's data breach, Duvel's cyberattack, Gregg's payment outage, and more.
Compliance News | February 2024 | Skillcast
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This month’s key compliance news includes PlayDapp's $300m security exploit, Tradestation's $1.5m settlement, gender pay reporting failures, and more.
Compliance News | January 2024 | Skillcast
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This month’s key compliance news includes the ICO's cookie compliance warning, Morgan Stanley's £249m fraud settlement, Credit Suisse's $3m fine, and more.
Compliance News | 2023 Highlights | Skillcast
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We've examined the top 10 compliance news stories in 2023, from major data breaches and discrimination awards to billion-dollar fines.
The Biggest Financial Crime Fines | Skillcast
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Monetary fines are a common punishment for financial crime. From bribery to money laundering, we examine the biggest financial crime cases and fines.
Understanding the Financial Services & Markets Act 2023 |...
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The government’s new Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 introduces game-changing legislation that promises to reshape the way businesses operate.
Compliance News | 2022 Highlights | Skillcast
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We've examined the top 10 compliance news stories in 2022, from major data breaches and discrimination awards to billion-dollar fines.
Understanding Proliferation Financing Obligations |...
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Proliferation financing is a financial crime which is heavily fined. That's why it's important not to miss a beat with new regulations.
3 Reasons to Avoid BeReal at Work | Skillcast
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Employees could face disciplinary action and dismissal for using BeReal at work. We examine why this app should be muted in the workplace.
Compliance News | 2021 Highlights | Skillcast
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We've examined the top 10 compliance news stories in 2021, from major data breaches and discrimination awards to billion-dollar fines.
Compliance News | 2020 Highlights | Skillcast
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We've examined the top 10 compliance news stories in 2020, from major data breaches and discrimination awards to billion-dollar fines.
Getting Business Compliance Ready Again | Skillcast
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Many aspects of compliance took a back-seat as both regulators & businesses focused on responding to the crisis. With restrictions, easing what next?
Compliance News | 2019 Highlights | Skillcast
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We've examined the top compliance news stories in 2019, from major data breaches and discrimination awards to billion-dollar fines.