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By Aaron Nicodemus2024-08-28T17:41:00
Finland-based Nordea Bank will pay $35 million to resolve an investigation by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) into “significant compliance failures” in its anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act program.
Nordea was discovered to be facilitating the creation of off-shore tax havens in the 2016 Panama Papers investigation. A subsequent NYDFS investigation found Nordea was engaging in high-risk transactions through its international bank branch in Denmark, the NYDFS said Tuesday in a press release. Nordea also formed relationships with high-risk correspondent banking partners without conducting adequate due diligence on them, the NYDFS said.
Among those correspondent banking relationships were with Danske Bank, Latvian-based ABLV Bank, and the Bank of Cyprus, according to the order. Danske bank had its own huge money laundering scandal within its Baltic operations, for which it was fined $2.2 billion. ABLV and the Bank of Cyprus had known AML deficiencies, the order said.
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2024-01-19T18:43:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and its New York branch agreed to pay $32.4 million in penalties levied by two regulators for failing to address compliance failures and for the unauthorized disclosure of confidential supervisory information to an overseas regulator.
2024-01-16T18:24:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Virtual currency brokerage firm Genesis Global Trading agreed to pay an $8 million penalty levied by the New York State Department of Financial Services for alleged compliance failures that left it vulnerable to illicit activity and cybersecurity threats.
2023-10-05T14:59:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Outgoing Danske Bank CCO Satnam Lehal shares with Compliance Week lessons learned from addressing deficiencies in the bank’s compliance program while managing the expectations of regulators, the board, employees, customers, analysts, investors, and the public.
2024-11-20T18:15:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
A bank examiner and senior manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond pled guilty to insider trading after allegedly misappropriating confidential information on seven banks to make profitable trades.
2024-11-19T21:05:00Z
New York-based investment firm Drexel Hamilton will pay more than $1.1 million in penalties, with four current and former employees paying fines as well over committing hundreds of violations of rules regarding the sale of municipal bonds.
2024-11-19T19:26:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
A publicly traded cryptocurrency mining company will pay $10 million and completely change its business model to one with “lower corruption risk” as part of a settlement over violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), two regulators announced.
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