Financial crimes

Too often, banks confronting a problem with their anti-money-laundering compliance opt for quick fixes that fail to address the root of the problem. Building a good corporate risk culture takes time and investment.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Rodney Hood suggested Tuesday that regulators should consider raising the dollar amount for mandatory suspicious activity reporting and revising the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index to advance bank mergers.

The rule requiring businesses to report their beneficial ownership is deeply flawed. Enforcement should be suspended until it can be revised to place fewer burdens on law-abiding people and companies.

Eric Council, Jr. will spend two years in prison for an identity theft scheme that led to a false post by the SEC on X that bitcoin ETFs had been approved.

The Canadian bank plans to exit its 10.1% interest in the brokerage firm, allowing it to shore up capital and strategically shrink to adhere to penalties related to its historic compliance failures.

After nearly 10 years of banking my business, BofA debanked it because of overzealous anti-money-laundering enforcement. The Trump administration must bring back common sense to Bank Secrecy Act compliance.

Once a helpful tool for law enforcement, CTRs have become next to useless in the fight against money laundering. It's time to retire them in favor of more modern and effective measures.

Toronto-Dominion Bank is moving up the start date for its new chief executive officer, Raymond Chun, by two months and has reduced executives' pay.

The investment banking giant has been the subject of regulatory probes regarding the way it vets prospective clients. So far, that's not driving away potential clients, executives say.

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court injunction against the Corporate Transparency Act, which requires businesses to disclose their beneficial owners. The outcome has significant implications for banks' AML compliance burdens.