The shift: Australia is preparing to move from requiring modern slavery reports to holding companies accountable for preventing exploitation. Large companies could face fines and criminal action if modern slavery occurs in their supply chains and they cannot demonstrate that they took reasonable steps to prevent it.

If you only read one thing: Supply chain risk has fundamentally changed. It is no longer about reacting to the next port closure or tariff announcement. It is about managing multiple, interconnected risks that can cascade across your supply chain in hours, not months. A new report from Verisk Maplecroft argues that resilience has deteriorated in 157 countries representing more than 90% of global trade, making disruption a structural feature of global commerce rather than an exception.

The European Commission dropped its official implementation guidelines for the EU Forced Labour Regulation on June 26, 2026. Enforcement starts December 14, 2027. That sounds far. It isn't.

A Wharton study just proved what compliance teams have suspected: companies are deliberately hiding their supply chains. Here's what that means for yours.