National Bank of Greece (NBG) will cancel 11,580,849 treasury shares acquired under its share buyback programme, representing 1.27% of its share capital, as the bank continues a separate tranche of purchases on the Athens Stock Exchange. The shares scheduled for cancellation on 17 September 2026 were acquired between 4 June 2025 and 27 March 2026 under a buyback programme approved by NBG shareholders. The bank paid a weighted average price of €12.6171 per share, bringing the

The United States Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking approximately $61 million in cryptocurrency that prosecutors allege represents proceeds from the black-market sale of sanctioned Iranian crude oil and petroleum products. The complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York, targets cryptocurrency held across a network of addresses and alleges that the funds were ultimately intended to benefit the Government of Iran and Iranian militar

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has proposed new payment-integrity requirements covering merchant payment arrangements in the Philippines, including stricter controls on layered payment structures, greater identification of merchants and ultimate recipients, and the establishment of a centralized national QR-code merchant database. The proposed rules would amend the BSP’s Manual of Regulations for Payment Systems and apply to BSP-supervised institutions, payment system

Five individuals allegedly linked to Russian intelligence services have been charged in the United States with conspiring to finance terrorism and, in three cases, with conspiring to commit murder for hire, following an investigation into a network accused of arranging payments for attacks, surveillance and targeted killings. The charges were unsealed on 15 September 2026 in the Southern District of New York. According to the indictment, the network operated from at least 202