21.08.2012

AML Noncompliance

Managing AML Non-Compliance

If you cannot manage compliance, someone (somewhere) will force you to comply with AML laws and regulations:
  1. FSA requires action of the HSBC Group
  2. Complince Program failings,  FSA/PN/081/2012, 02 Aug 2012
  3. FSA fines Habib Bank AG Zurich £525,000 and money laundering reporting officer £17,500 for anti-money laundering control failings,  FSA/PN/055/2012, 15 May 2012.
  4. FSA fines Christchurch Investment Management Limited and compliance officer for client money breaches, FSA/PN/046/2012, 01 May 2012
  5. Coutts fined £8.75 million for anti-money laundering control failings, FSA/PN/032/2012,  26 Mar 2012.
  6. Former compliance officer at Greenlight Capital and JP Morgan Cazenove trader fined, FSA/PN/007/2012, 27 Jan 2012.
  7. Francois de Dietrich sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for failure to comply with Court Order and to cooperate with FSA investigation, FSA/PN/016/2011, 28 Jan 2011.
  8. Former senior manager sentenced to 27 months in prison for insider dealing and money laundering, FSA/PN/010/2011, 21 Jan 2011.
  9. Senior manager found guilty of insider dealing and money laundering, FSA/PN/168/2010, 26 Nov 2010.
  10. FSA fines Goldman Sachs International £17.5 million for weaknesses in controls resulting in failure to provide FSA with appropriate information, FSA/PN/141/2010, 09 Sep 2010.
  11. FSA fines Société Générale £1.575 million for failures in transaction reporting, FSA/PN/135/2010, 25 Aug 2010.
  12. FSA fines Alpari and its former money laundering reporting officer, Sudipto Chattopadhyay for anti-money laundering failings, FSA/PN/077/2010, 05 May 2010.
  13. FSA fines Commerzbank for failures in transaction reporting, FSA/PN/073/2010, 27 Apr 2010
  14. FSA fines Barclays £2.45m for failures in transaction reporting, FSA/PN/117/2009, 08 Sep 2009.
Consequences of AML Non-Compliance
  • Enforcement actions- civil and criminal penalties
  • Reputational risk.
  • Lose of Job