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ArticleCredit Suisse unit fined $9M for conflict of interest, recordkeeping lapses
Credit Suisse Securities agreed to pay a $9 million fine levied by FINRA for failing to comply with securities laws and rules involving potential conflicts of interest and the safeguarding of customer securities.
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ArticleSwedbank names Britta Hjorth-Larsen as chief compliance officer
Swedbank announced the appointment of Britta Hjorth-Larsen as its new chief compliance officer. She will take over her new duties by Aug. 1 at the latest and join the bank’s group executive committee.
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Nordea names chief risk officer
Nordea Bank announced the appointment of Mark Kandborg as chief risk officer and a member of the group leadership team.
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ArticleReport: Financial crime fines down in 2021; AML penalties drop 78 percent
Fines for corporate crimes last year fell by more than half to 8.7 billion euros (U.S. $9.9 billion) from 2020’s total of €20 billion (U.S. $22.6 billion), according to a report released by research firm AML Intelligence.
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ArticleWells Fargo names Derek Flowers chief risk officer
Wells Fargo named longtime executive Derek Flowers as its new chief risk officer. Flowers will lead the bank’s independent risk management function, including compliance risk management.
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ArticleCredit Suisse chairman resigns over breach of Covid-19 rules
António Horta-Osório, the leader who was supposed to bring stability and accountability back to Credit Suisse, resigned after eight months as chairman following an investigation into his flouting of Covid-19 rules.
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ArticleBiden nominates Sarah Bloom Raskin as Fed supervision head
President Joe Biden nominated Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former Treasury official, to serve as the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision. Lisa Cook and Philip Jefferson were nominated to be Fed governors.
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Standard Chartered names group general counsel
Multinational banking firm Standard Chartered has named Sandie Okoro group general counsel. She will join the bank in early April.
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ArticleBank of America, Wells Fargo headline climate risk consortium
Bank of America, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and 16 other financial institutions have formed a climate risk consortium in response to calls from investors and regulators that banks work to mitigate climate-related risks within their own operations.
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ArticleCCO liability framework seeks to acknowledge compliance support concerns
The National Society of Compliance Professionals has drafted a framework that urges regulators to consider chief compliance officer liability more holistically, in the context of the compliance culture within a CCO’s firm.
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ArticleReport: Financial services fines drop 49 percent in 2021
The value of penalties against global financial services firms in 2021 dropped to half the total levied in 2020, according to research by compliance technology provider Fenergo.
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ArticleWells Fargo chief risk officer to retire
Amanda Norton, Wells Fargo’s chief risk officer since 2018, will retire at the end of June, according to a memo from CEO Charlie Scharf distributed internally.
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ArticleFormer Swedbank CEO Birgitte Bonnesen charged with fraud
The Swedish Economic Crime Authority announced charges against Birgitte Bonnesen, Swedbank’s former chief executive officer, for fraud and market manipulation regarding the bank’s money laundering scandal.
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ArticleMorgan Stanley agrees to $60M settlement over compromised personal data
Morgan Stanley has agreed to establish a $60 million fund to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by nearly a dozen customers regarding personal data that was compromised when the bank decommissioned two wealth management centers.
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ArticleDeutsche Bank fined $9.8M for Euribor control weaknesses
Germany’s market regulator BaFin imposed an administrative fine of 8.66 million euros (U.S. $9.8 million) on Deutsche Bank for breaches of the European Union’s Benchmarks Regulation.
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Orange Bank & Trust hires chief accounting officer
Orange County Bancorp, parent company of Orange Bank & Trust Co., announced Michael Lesler has joined the company and the bank as senior vice president, controller and chief accounting officer.
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ArticleFinancial crime risk management: Old crimes, new methods
Times and technologies change, but the fundamental means by which criminals attempt to launder money and carry out their nefarious acts are still rooted in the same criminal process.
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ArticleTD Bank fined $105K for North Korea sanctions violations
TD Bank, N.A. agreed to pay approximately $105,000 as part of a settlement with OFAC for “multiple sanctions compliance breakdowns” that contributed to more than 1,000 apparent violations of North Korean sanctions regulations.
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ArticleNatWest to pay $35M for defrauding U.S. Treasury markets
NatWest Markets, the investment banking arm of London-based NatWest Group, agreed to pay approximately $35 million after pleading guilty to engaging in various fraud schemes over the span of a decade in U.S. Treasury markets.
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ArticleFinCEN report highlights uptick in wildlife trafficking SARs
Suspicious activity reports flagging potential financial crime risks posed by wildlife trafficking are on the rise, according to a report published by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.