Interactive Brokers to pay $38M for SAR, AML failures
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Jaclyn Jaeger2020-08-10T18:05:00
Interactive Brokers has agreed to pay $38 million in settlements with three regulatory agencies related to anti-money laundering lapses, including repeated failures regarding the filing of suspicious activity reports.
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