Financial crimes

A data-driven approach to money laundering prevention can help increase profits and improve regulatory compliance, writes Edmund Tribue, risk and regulatory practice leader at NTT Data Services.

CFPB and OCC are looking at auto lenders’ policies regarding so-called GAP insurance; banks want greater collateral from retailers.

Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan has told employees that a third-party review of unauthorized accounts will be published “within a few weeks.”

Hackers are stealing enthusiasts’ phone numbers, then changing the passwords to clean out their financial accounts; bank makes pledge to human rights groups.

Payment processors and banks are being called on to cut off funds to white supremacist groups, but there are practical and legal limits to what firms can do.

Basel Institute says enforcement is the problem; wealth adviser says bank steered clients away from her to white colleagues and blocked her promotion.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia money-laundering scandal has damaged the public's perception of the whole banking sector, according to the head of the industry's lobby group.

Democrats sent a letter to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Tex., asking that he investigate potential financial ties between President Trump and Russia.

Stephen Sanger is expected to leave as nonexecutive chairman; Barry Rodrigues, a former Citigroup and American Express executive, will join the British bank in November.

Chairman Stephen Sanger could step down ahead of the embattled bank's next annual meeting, according to a news report, clearing the way for the elevation of Duke, the current vice chairman and a former Fed governor and banking executive.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is said to be drawing on ongoing investigations, including one by federal prosecutors into whether former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort laundered money from eastern Europe into New York properties.

Readers react to USAA teaming up with Amazon’s Alexa, how a new Wells Fargo’s scandal could affect arbitration rules, a digital identity startup’s ambitions, and more.

The bank agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle charges it didn't tell consumers why their checking account applications were rejected; Winklevoss brothers to supply bitcoin data to Chicago exchange.

The four former credit union employees are banned from having any dealings with federally insured financial institutions.

The Buffalo, N.Y., bank has been freed from an enforcement order that required an upgrade of its anti-money-laundering compliance systems. The Fed had ordered the upgrade as a condition for approval of its acquisition of Hudson City Bancorp.

The New Jersey company reported lower quarterly profit that included professional fees tied to addressing an informal order from regulators.

GlobalID stands out from scores of similar companies and projects by attempting to wed self-sovereignty with regulatory compliance. If its technology works, it could alleviate a major cost for banks.

The fine for BTC-e was the Treasury’s first action against a money-services business located in a foreign country, and the second against a virtual currency exchange.

A monitor's report detailing HSBC's compliance with a 2012 agreement with U.S. prosecutors to fix faulty money-laundering controls isn't a judicial document and shouldn't be made public, a federal appeals court said.

Despite assurances that the Department of Justice crackdown on banks' third-party relationships is ceasing, lawmakers say it is still having an impact.