Search Results for: Anti-Money Laundering
NatWest fined £264.8 million for anti-money laundering failures
December 14th, 2021
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator in UK for around financial services firms and financial markets, has issued an announcement to inform that National Westminster Bank Plc (NatWest) was fined £264,772,619.95 following convictions for three offences of ...
EU needs single anti-money laundering authority, says thinktank
November 5th, 2018
The European Union should set up a single anti-money laundering (AML) authority with the power to levy big fines to tackle the stream of scandals across member states, Brussels-based thinktank Bruegal has said in a new report. The thinktank ...
FINMA finds deficiencies in anti-money laundering processes at Credit Suisse
September 19th, 2018
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA has concluded two enforcement procedures against Credit Suisse AG. In the first procedure, FINMA identified deficiencies in the bank’s adherence to anti-money laundering due diligence obligations in relation to suspected corruption involving ...
Swiss watchdog to propose looser anti-money laundering rules for fintechs
August 29th, 2018
Swiss financial regulator FINMA is planning to loosen anti-money laundering rules for smaller financial technology firms, part of a drive to boost innovation and shore up the country’s position as a leading money management hub. The revisions, prompted by ...
UK regulator fined a Bank for anti-money laundering systems failings
June 7th, 2018
The UK regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has issued an announcement to inform that has fined Canara Bank £896,100 and has imposed a restriction, preventing it from accepting deposits from new customers for 147 days. Financial services firms are ...
The New EU Rules for Anti-Money Laundering and Tax Avoidance Enter Into Force
June 28th, 2017
Strengthened EU rules to tackle money laundering, tax avoidance and terrorism financing enter into force The Juncker Commission has made the fight against tax avoidance, money laundering and terrorism financing one of its priorities. On June 26,2017 the Fourth ...
Brokerage Firm Charged With Failing to Comply With Anti-Money Laundering Laws
June 6th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued an announcement to inform that the Commission charges a Salt Lake City-based brokerage firm with securities law violations related to its alleged practice of clearing transactions for microcap stocks that were used ...
AIB Bank fined millions euro for breach anti-money laundering compliance rules
April 27th, 2017
The Central Bank of Ireland (the ‘Central Bank’) fined Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. (‘AIB’) €2,275,000 and reprimanded it for six breaches of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing) Act, 2010 (the ‘CJA 2010’). All six breaches have ...
FMA warns firms under Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act
February 8th, 2017
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has issued a formal warning to 12 reporting entities under section 80 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act (the Act). Under section 59(2) of the Act, the FMA required reporting ...
FCA fines Deutsche Bank £163 million for serious anti-money laundering controls failings
January 31st, 2017
Soon after the New York’s Department of Financial Services fined Deutsche Bank $425 million for Russian Mirror-Trading scheme, the U.K. regulators FCA announced a fined of £163,076,224 to Deutsche Bank AG for failing to maintain an adequate anti-money laundering ...
