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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific: 1,838 cases from 37 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.

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€76.1mTotal of monetary amounts
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1 case

19 Dec 2025 Australia and New Zealand Banking Group LimitedANZ: AUD 135m penalty over conduct in a government bond issue and false reporting AustraliaMarket abuse and insider dealing €76.1m

In April 2023, as a bank managing a AUD 14 billion government bond issue for the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), ANZ sold large volumes of bond futures around the time of pricing without informing the AOFM of its outstanding sales, and from 2021 to 2023 reported inflated secondary market turnover in government bonds to it. The Court imposed AUD 135 million: AUD 85 million for the bond issue (including AUD 80 million for unconscionable conduct) and AUD 50 million for the inaccurate turnover reporting, together with a compliance programme at its own cost. In three retail matters a further AUD 115 million was imposed on the same day in a separate judgment.

What organisations can take from it

A bank managing an issue for a client must disclose its own hedging activity and must not report embellished figures to authorities.

Relevance to training and awareness

Transparency and conflicts of interest in proprietary trading around client transactions; accuracy of reports to authorities

Authority / court
Federal Court of Australia (auf Antrag der Australian Securities and Investments Commission, ASIC)
Area of law
Capital markets and financial supervision · Market abuse and insider dealing
Legal basis
ss 12CB(1), 12DB(1)(a) ASIC Act 2001 (Cth); ss 912A(1)(a), (ca), (f), (5A), 912DAA, 1041H(1) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Employees
10,000 or more
Mitigating circumstances
Constructive engagement with ASIC and admissions at the earliest available opportunity.
Published
19 Dec 2025

Original amount 135,000,000 AUD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 19 Dec 2025.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

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