Tag: Money Laundering

April 12, 2024

Multiple U.S. regulators have joined the probe into Morgan Stanley’s efforts to prevent potential money laundering by its wealth clients, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of […]

April 3, 2024

Cosmic was co-developed by MAS and six commercial Singaporean banks – Citibank, DBS, HSBC, OCBC, UOB, and Standard Chartered Bank – with these financial institutions being the first to implement the solution during its initial phase. MAS states that information […]

February 20, 2024

The regulator has extended the stay of its special representative at Deutsche Bank until 30 October 2024 to report on and assess the progress of the bank’s implementation of safeguards against money laundering and terrorist financing. The representative was first […]

January 11, 2024

The United States Department of the Treasury has announced that it is working to address what it perceives as money laundering risks associated with investment advisers. Specifically, the agency asserts that absent consistent and comprehensive anti-money laundering (“AML”) and countering […]

November 27, 2023

On November 21, 2023, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed charges against cryptocurrency exchange Binance and Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao for violating anti-money laundering provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) and for causing violations of U.S. sanctions issued pursuant to […]

April 4, 2023

Members of the European Parliament (MEP) have adopted draft legislation strengthening EU rules against money laundering and terrorist financing with MEPs set to negotiate the final shape of the legislation with EU governments. The parliament will vote on it during […]

April 26, 2021

FinTech companies have been gaining momentum since the beginning of the pandemic. They have significantly improved their services and even merged with the traditional banking methods. Major banks have integrated fintech into their existing systems to offer more options. So […]

September 21, 2020

Bank shares were reeling Monday morning following a report charging that JPMorgan Chase (JPM) – Get Report, Deutsche Bank (DB) – Get Report and other financial services companies had defied money laundering crackdowns even after being fined by U.S. authorities. […]

September 14, 2020

The EBA is responding to a call for advice issued by the European Commission (EC). It sets out how the EU legal framework needs a boost to tackle vulnerabilities linked to divergent national approaches. Under current guidelines, EU states have […]

November 29, 2018

One hundred seventy officers searched the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and five other sites in the area early Thursday as part of a money-laundering investigation involving hundreds of millions of euros, prosecutors in Frankfurt said. Two employees, who […]

November 19, 2018

The whistleblower who revealed suspected money laundering involving Danske Bank said on Monday that two major U.S. and one European banks were among several which had helped process suspicious payments. Payments totaling 200 billion euros ($228.5 billion) made through Danske […]

October 5, 2018

COPENHAGEN — Danske Bank, which last month acknowledged failing to prevent suspected money laundering at its Estonian branch, has now drawn the attention of United States authorities. In a statement on its website, the Danish lender said it was cooperating […]

June 22, 2018

Bitcoin prices fell roughly 9 percent Friday after Japan’s financial regulator ordered several cryptocurrency exchanges to improve their practices against money laundering. The digital currency was trading at $6,150, according to CoinDesk, breaking below $6,400 for the first time in […]

July 13, 2016

HSBC has escaped charges of money laundering by US officials due to fears by the Department of Justice (DOJ) it might create a “global financial disaster”. A US Congressional report shows that UK officials, including Chancellor George Osborne, used their […]