An ounce of prevention. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) used to live in the fine print: a quiet clause buried in the terms, rarely discussed. Now it has been dragged into the open. Curacao’s new LOK framework turns ADR from a polite recommendation into a binding licensing condition, with Anjouan, Nevis, Malta and the UK all pressing the same way — an independent complaints process is no longer optional infrastructure. In Myanmar, the country stays on the FATF ‘black list’ flagged again for extensive fraud and scam-linked illicit finance. Meanwhile, in Macau, the three-day Dragon Boat holiday drew over 380,000 visitor arrivals, supported by the seasonal break in mainland China and Hong Kong.