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FATF gives Iran reform extension; UK & Israel evaluation reports expected by December
Iran now has until February 2019 to implement anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing reforms after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) agreed at its latest plenary [1] to further extend suspension of counter-measures for non-completion..
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22 October 2018
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Capital One pays $100m for delay in BSA/AML remediation
Capital One, the Virginia-based bank, will pay $100m to the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for violations of a consent order to address Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering failings it signed in 2015. [1]The 2015 cease and..
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24 October 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
JSC ‘LPB Bank’ fined €2.2m in Latvia, board member ordered off AML/CFT & censured
Latvian lender JSC ‘LPB Bank’ is to pay €2,205,282 to the Financial and Capital Market Commission (FCMC) for anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing rule breaches.The FCMC has also censured Arniss Kalveršs, the chief risk officer and a..
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25 October 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Hong Kong SFC expands PEP controls to international organisation staff
By Keith Nuthall
Online Published Date:
29 October 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Second wave: US sanctions against Iran re-imposed
Susannah
Cogman (+44
(0)20 7466 2580, susannah.cogman@hsf.com)
and Daniel Hudson (+44 (0)20 7466
2470, daniel.hudson@hsf.com) are
partners, Jonathan Cross (+1 917 542
7824, jonathan.cross@hsf.com) is of
Counsel, and Christopher Milazzo (+1
917 542 7807, christopher.milazzo@hsf.com)
an associate with Herbert Smith Freehillls.
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06 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Repeat offending – UK government v. money laundering
Timon Molloy (timon.molloy@informa.com), Editor
Online Published Date:
07 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Luxembourg before European Court over Fourth ML Directive transposition delay
Luxembourg has today (8 November) been referred to theEuropean Court of Justice (ECJ) by the European Commission over its failure to
fully implement the Fourth EU Money Laundering Directive (4MLD), which became effective
on 26 June 2017. To date, 21..
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08 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Malta told by European Commission to improve AML supervision of banks
Malta’sFinancial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) has been instructed, on 8 November,
to strengthen its supervision of the country’s banks by the European Commission;
it has ten days to respond. The move comes after the European Banking Authority..
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09 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
HSBC fined in South Africa for AML failings
HSBC has been fined 15 million rand (UK£844,297) by the Prudential Authority (PA) of the South Africa Reserve Bank over weaknesses in its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing controls. [1]The central bank authority said that the..
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12 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
MoneyGram forfeits $125m after DPA breach
MoneyGram, the global money services business, is to pay$125m to the US Department of Justice after “significant weaknesses” in its
anti-fraud and anti-money laundering programme meant it failed to comply with a
2012 deferred prosecution agreement..
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12 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Blurred vision – cannabis and reporting
David Rundle (+44 (0)20 7872 1607, david.rundle@wilmerhale.com) Counsel in WilmerHale’s UK White Collar Defence & Investigations practice.
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12 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Société Générale fined $1.34 billion for US sanctions violations
Société Générale, the French global banking group, will pay $1.34 billion in penalties for breaching US sanctions and another $95 million for anti-money laundering compliance failings.New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) investigators..
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21 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
More than one million refused accounts by UK firms over financial crime risk
Larger UK-regulated financial services firms refused to onboard 1.15 million prospective customers due to financial crime concerns, according to data reported in 2017 at their accounting year end for the previous 12 months.The Financial Conduct..
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21 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
FinCEN expands real estate Geographic Targeting Orders, covers virtual currencies
US title insurance companies will, under reissued Geographic Targeting Orders, have to identify the beneficial owners of shell companies used to purchase residential property wholly for cash in counties in 12 metropolitan areas: Boston; Chicago;..
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21 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Three global banks in spotlight over Danske correspondent roles
Danske Bank whistleblower Howard Wilkinson, who first notified management in Copenhagen about suspicious flows through the Estonian branch in 2013, and then again in 2014, pointed the finger at three leading international banks in testimony to the..
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21 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Deutsche Bank fined Rupees 30.1 million in India for AML failings
Deutsche Bank has been fined Rupees 30.1 million (approximately US$420,000) by the Reserve Bank of India for compliance failings including know your customer/anti-money laundering breaches. [1]The order, dated 5 November 2018, also refers to..
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21 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Fixing the lottery of life
Susan Grossey may be contacted on +44 (0)1223 563636, susan@thinkingaboutcrime.com, www.thinkingaboutcrime.com
Online Published Date:
22 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Out to sea – the Netherlands offshore
The Dutch record on anti-money laundering in its Caribbean territories is not so sunny find Keith Nuthall and Sarah Gibbons.The Dutch Caribbean’s weak reputation for fighting money laundering, and to a lesser extent terror financing, persists with..
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22 November 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018
Listen! Do you want to know a secret?
Denis O’Connor is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment. He was a member of the British Bankers’ Association Money Laundering Committee from 2003-10 and a member of the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group’s Board and Editorial Panel between 2010 and 2016. He has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences on financial crime issues, both in the UK and abroad.
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16 December 2018
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259 - 01 December 2018