All Banking articles – Page 36
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Biden 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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Bank 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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CCO 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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Report: 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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Wells 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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Former 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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Morgan 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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Deutsche 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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Financial 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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TD 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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NatWest 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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FinCEN 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.
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Standard Chartered fined record $61.5M for liquidity reporting failures
The U.K. Prudential Regulation Authority imposed a record fine of £46.55 million (U.S. $61.5 million) against Standard Chartered Bank for repeatedly misreporting a key metric to determine liquidity risk.
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OCC guidance: Six principles for large banks managing climate risks
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published draft guidance for large banks to identify, measure, monitor, and control climate-related risks to ensure the safety and soundness of their institutions and the market.
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HSBC hit with $84M penalty over AML failings
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority fined HSBC Bank £63,946,800 (U.S. $84.3 million) for failings in its anti-money laundering processes over an eight-year period.
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SEC, CFTC fine JPMorgan Chase $200M for recordkeeping violations
JPMorgan Chase will pay $200 million in fines to settle charges brought by two federal regulators regarding the bank’s failure to maintain records of communications on securities, commodities, and swaps business matters made on bank employees’ personal devices.
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CommunityBank of Texas fined $8M over AML failures
CommunityBank of Texas has agreed to pay $8 million as part of a consent order reached with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network regarding deficiencies in its anti-money laundering program linked to understaffing.
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FinCEN seeking feedback on AML/CFT regime ahead of report to Congress
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has issued a request for information on ways to modernize the Bank Secrecy Act ahead of a report Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen must provide Congress by Jan. 1, 2022.