U.K. FinTech Stenn has reportedly collapsed over possible ties to a Russian money laundering scheme. The company was placed into administration — a type of insolvency procedure — earlier this month after a reference to it appeared in a U.S. indictment in a money laundering case, the...
It’s almost 2025, but many businesses are still facing the same old anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) concerns, among other compliance requirements. With the news that Wise, the money transfer giant, has implemented a European regulator’s recommendations to bolster its AML programs,...
FinTech Wise reportedly has implemented a European regulator’s recommendations to bolster its anti-money laundering (AML) programs. Wise was forced into a formal remediation plan after the National Bank of Belgium found in 2022 that there was a shortcoming in its AML controls, the Financial Times (FT) reported Thursday...
U.S. government agencies are reportedly investigating Citigroup’s anti-money laundering (AML) policies and its ties to a sanctioned Russian official. The Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI and the IRS are looking at the bank’s work for a trust that holds assets owned by Russian billionaire Suleiman...
The United Kingdom’s finance regulator fined Metro Bank for failing to monitor money laundering risks. The Financial Conduct Authority said Metro must pay 16.7 million pounds (about $21 million) for a lack of proper money laundering protections on 60 million transactions between 2016 and 2020,...
Last month, the Justice Department settled an anti-money laundering probe into TD Bank. But according to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the $3 billion the government received from the Canadian lender was not enough. As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported last week, Warren said...
TD Bank Group said Thursday (Oct. 10) that it takes full responsibility for the failures of its U.S. Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance programs and will continue its work to remediate them. The bank said this on the day it and...
TD Bank is reportedly close to a possible plea related to its anti-money laundering measures. The Canadian bank is in discussions with U.S. prosecutors over the agreement, stemming from criminal charges that its American arm failed to prevent money laundering, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has withdrawn its finding that ABLV Bank, AS is a financial institution of primary money laundering concern, because the bank no longer operates as a depository institution. ABLV was a commercial bank located in Riga, Latvia, and FinCEN found...
