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Bank of America Faces Historic Treasury Penalty Over Rampant AML Failures

Despite years of progressive regulatory scrutiny and the widespread implementation of increasingly-sophisticated financial surveillance systems, anti-money laundering (AML) failures continue to expose vulnerabilities in the international banking system. Unfortunately for all parties involved, when these compliance controls fail at major financial institutions, the consequences can extend well beyond corporate balance sheets to negatively affect national […]

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American Express Hit With $350 Million OCC Penalty Over Anti-Money-Laundering Failures

Despite decades of regulatory reforms, billions of dollars-worth of collective enforcement actions and the arrival of increasingly sophisticated financial surveillance systems to the realm of mainstream finance, anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CFT) failures continue to persist both domestically and abroad, creating vulnerabilities for all parties operating across international banking sector and allowing illicit funds to […]

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U.S. Tightens Net Around Russia, Iran Sanctions Evasion with Shadow Bank Network Crackdown

The fight against sanctions evasion has become an increasingly important front in the broader effort to disrupt illicit finance on the global scale. In recent years, the United States government has characterized sanctions evasion and associated illicit financial activity as legitimate threats to our national security interests, with the financial infrastructure used to move sanctioned […]

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