News, standards updates and audit guidance for crypto-accounting teams, covering reporting, compliance and regulatory developments.
The AMF's €1.2m spoofing sanctions against a German derivatives firm have survived every appeal stage, including the Cour de cassation, confirming cross-border jurisdiction over Eurex-listed futures linked to French sovereign bonds.
The AMF sanctions commission issued a formal warning to a French asset manager and its president for multiple professional obligation failures, later reinforced on appeal by the Conseil d'État in 2023, with non-anonymous publication ordered for three years.
The AMF Sanctions Commission fined an unnamed investment services provider EUR 220,000 for five professional obligation failures covering order record-keeping, best-execution policy, and client incident disclosure, covering conduct between 2014 and 2016.
The AMF Enforcement Commission sanctioned seven individuals and entities for coordinated market manipulation on Euronext Access; the Paris Court of Appeal upheld the decision against one respondent in June 2026, confirming the regulatory and appellate exposure for firms operating in French equity markets.
AMF sanctions Bourse Direct and its CEO for transaction reporting failures and inadequate market abuse surveillance, totalling €850,000, with direct lessons for investment services compliance programmes across the EU
