All Regulatory Enforcement articles – Page 132
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ABLV Bank chief compliance officer quits amid money laundering probe
ABLV Bank announced the resignation of its chief compliance officer, Aleksandrs Paže, at a time when the bank finds itself in hot water for alleged money laundering practices.
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U.S. Bancorp to pay $613M for AML compliance failures
U.S. Bancorp, the parent company of U.S. Bank, announced today that it will pay a total of $613 million in total penalties for willfully failing to have an adequate anti-money laundering compliance program and willfully failing to file a suspicious activity report in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act.
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Rabobank to pay $368.7M for laundering Mexico drug money
The U.S. subsidiary of Rabobank pleaded guilty this week to a felony conspiracy charge for impairing, impeding, and obstructing a government investigation by concealing deficiencies in its anti-money laundering program.
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Thirty-six Indicted for $530 million in global cyber-crime losses
A federal indictment charges 36 individuals from around the world for their roles in the Infraud Organization, an Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise engaged in the large-scale acquisition and sale of stolen identities and credit cards.
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CFTC charges executives for ongoing virtual currency scam
The CFTC announced that it is bringing commodity fraud and misappropriation charges related to the ongoing solicitation of customers for a virtual currency known as My Big Coin.
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Lessons from the FCPA corporate enforcement policy
The Department of Justice’s new FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy offers valuable lessons for companies that are considering how best to address a potential FCPA violation.
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OCC: Citibank to pay $70M for AML deficiencies
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency assessed a $70 million civil penalty against Citibank for failing to comply with the agency’s 2012 consent order related to Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering deficiencies.
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The Sanctions Screening Whitepaper
The IdentityMind white paper provides important background and tips to improve the sanction screening process. Learn how false positives can be minimized using matching algorithms, ways to apply risk integrated rules to configurable lists, and how their technology can help to eliminate wasted effort and improve results.
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Federal Home Loan Bank of New York elects vice chairman
The board of directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York has elected Larry Thompson to serve as the board’s vice chairman for 2018. Thompson, who is the vice chairman of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, has served on the Bank’s board as an independent director since ...
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Associate director of SEC Enforcement Division leaving the agency
Gerald Hodgkins, an Associate Director of the Division of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, will leave the agency at the end of this year for private practice, the agency announced.
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SEC charges operators of $1.2B Ponzi Scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges and an asset freeze against a group of unregistered funds and their owner who allegedly bilked thousands of retail investors in a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.
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FINRA fines Raymond James $2M for flawed e-mail monitoring system
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has fined Raymond James Financial Services $2 million for failing to maintain reasonably designed supervisory systems and procedures for reviewing e-mail communications, serving as a warning to compliance officers to review FINRA's guidance concerning the review and supervision of electronic communications.
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Senate approves SEC commissioners after one last look at their views
Robert Jackson, a Democrat, and Hester Peirce, a Republican, will fill two seats on the SEC that have remained vacant since 2015.
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FOR: SEC political disclosure rule
To help companies manage risk, the Securities and Exchange Commission should mandate what smart organizations are already doing: disclosing political contributions.
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AGAINST: Wrong tactic and agency
Requiring public companies to disclose their political contributions is a solution in search of a problem, especially given how little corporate money actually goes into elections.
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CFTC launches virtual currency resource web page
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the launch of a new virtual currency resource Web page, a central repository for CFTC-produced resources about virtual currency and is designed to educate and inform the public about these commodities, including the possible risks associated with investing or speculating in virtual currencies or ...
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CFTC issues guidance on CTA registration requirements under MiFID II
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight this week issued interpretative guidance, clarifying commodity trading advisor registration requirements resulting from the European Union’s MiFID II research compensation provisions for investment managers.
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Going back to basics with whistleblowers
On a fundamental level, people want to know that they are being taken seriously, which is why it is so important that whistleblower policies work in practice, and not just on paper.
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Aggressive global anti-fraud enforcement to continue
If you thought that enforcement actions like Odebrecht and Vimpelcom were behind us, guess again. They were just the tip of the iceberg. Welcome to the enforcement era.
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How the CFTC oversees bitcoin futures
Three exchanges regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission this month self-certified new contracts for bitcoin futures products. Sequentially, the CFTC issued a statement on the self-certification of bitcoin products by these exchanges.