- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2023-09-29T20:06:00
The American branch of South Korea-based Shinhan Bank agreed to pay $25 million across settlements with three separate regulators for admitted violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements.
Shinhan Bank America was fined $15 million by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) for willfully violating the BSA by failing to implement and maintain an effective AML program and neglecting to timely report hundreds of transactions involving suspicious financial activity by its customers, the agency announced in a press release Friday. As part of its action, FinCEN credited a $5 million penalty levied by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) regarding its related findings.
Separately, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) fined Shinhan Bank America $10 million as its state regulator.
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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.
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The recent $25 million in combined penalties levied against South Korean-based Shinhan Bank by three U.S. regulators was the culmination of the bank’s failure over an eight-year period to timely correct deficiencies with its anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act processes.
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